Re: Abit F-190HD Onboard rlt8169 Ethernet Controller

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Mon Oct 29 2007 - 04:42:49 EST


Alan Cox wrote:
A vendor ID of 1 is very very very broken. Do all boards have this or do
you have a faulty box (perhaps a misprogrammed EEPROM somewhere)

{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK, 0x8136), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_2 },
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK, 0x8167), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_0 },
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK, 0x8168), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_1 },
+ { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_ANY_ID, 0x8168), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_2 },

That will match any device 0x8168 not just a realtek one. I'd use 0x0001,
0x8168 for the match. However I'd seriously consider checking another
board as I suspect you simply have a return candidate.

Amusingly, 8139too had to deal with the exact same problem. At the time, we chose to obtain the subsystem vendor/device ids, and list them that way:

/* some crazy cards report invalid vendor ids like
* 0x0001 here. The other ids are valid and constant,
* so we simply don't match on the main vendor id.
*/
{PCI_ANY_ID, 0x8139, 0x10ec, 0x8139, 0, 0, RTL8139 },
{PCI_ANY_ID, 0x8139, 0x1186, 0x1300, 0, 0, RTL8139 },
{PCI_ANY_ID, 0x8139, 0x13d1, 0xab06, 0, 0, RTL8139 },

Given that the subsystem vendor ids in particular were sane and valid in each case, this seemed narrow enough to avoid false positives.


Regardless, I agree with your "you...have a return candidate" comment.

Jeff


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