I changed the old Realtek 8029 network adapter card with a newer 8139
adapter card on my QNX6.2 machine. Unfornately I cannot find the new card
when I reboot the
machine. I think I might have to remove the old network adapter
configuration to enable the new card.
Can anybody advise me how to enable the new adapter card? Thanks!
Yijun
It should not be necessary to do anything unless QNX does not natively
support your new NIC when you use PCI based NIC’s.
What sometimes is necessary is to tweak the /etc/system/enum/devices/net
file to include a new device ID. The thing is that hardware vendors come out
with a new rev of a chip and the bump the device id on the new chip. I many
cases the current driver is still compatible with the new rev., but is will
not be loaded because the new rev. has a new device ID.
What you can do is to issue the “pci” command and thereby get the vendor and
device id of the new NIC. Then try to start up io-net manually with where
you specify the driver and the vendor and device id.
Below is an example where io-net is started up with one of the newer Intel
NIC chipsets using the current speedo driver:
slay -f io-net
io-net -dspeedo vid=0x8086,did=0x1039 -p tcpip
netmanager
You will have the load something else than the speedo driver and have the
correct vendor id (vid) and device id (did) for your NIC.
–
Jens
“Yijun Zou” <yjzou@sina.com> wrote in message
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I changed the old Realtek 8029 network adapter card with a newer 8139
adapter card on my QNX6.2 machine. Unfornately I cannot find the new card
when I reboot the
machine. I think I might have to remove the old network adapter
configuration to enable the new card.
Can anybody advise me how to enable the new adapter card? Thanks!Yijun
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