Re: [E1000-devel] e1000e and the 2009 Mac Pro

[Brandeburg, J. <jes...@in...>]

Douglas Geiger wrote:
>  I am trying to get Linux up and running on my new (2009) Mac Pro (the
> 4,1 model). I currently have Ubuntu Jaunty (Alpha 6) installed, and
> amy working to get the Gig-E interfaces working. It looks like they
> should 
> be supported by the e1000e module, but the PCI ID's (8086:10f6) are
> not recognized.
>  Using ioreg in OS X shows me that both interfaces are recognized as
> Intel 82574L's, but lspci in Linux just lists them as:
> 09:00.0: Ethernet Controller: Intel Corporation Device 10f6
> 0a:00.0: Ethernet Controller: Intel Corporation Device 10f6
>  I was hoping I could simply add this ID to the e1000e driver, and
> they would work, but so far, no such luck.
>  Working with the e1000e-0.5.18.3 source package off sf.net, I added a
> define for the 10F6 ID to hw.h, and a new PCI_VDEVICE line with the
> define, and board_ich10lan to netdev.c. It compiled fine, but on
> loading I get: The NVM Checksum Is Not Valid. Rebooting to OS X, the
> interfaces still work fine. The output from dmesg is:

Doug I think you're really close, but you need to select board_82574
and it will likely work.

Jesse

PS also see john's note about our future releases with this ID.