intel motherboard ethernet not working...

QNX DEVELOPERS General Programming
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Hi,

I’m trying to get onto my LAN on a QNX 632 host I’m setting up.
On install, it didn’t recognise the on-board ethernet and so I’ve googled around and set it thus:

io-net -d i82544 vid=0x8086,did=0x10bd -p tcpip -v #which matches my “pci -v” output
I set a static IP via ifconfig en0 192.168.160.45
it can ping itself but not other hosts on same lan (host is down), and other hosts can’t ping it (host is down)
I can start inetd, and netstat says that ftp etc. is open
however nicinfo’s output has a ->“Max receivable data unit … 0”<- which looks wrong?
also, nicinfo states I’m receiving packets but not transmitting

any ideas? anyone point me at a better driver? I’m new to this so I might have missed something obvious
TIA :slight_smile:
(sorry about being a little sparse on detail, I’m copying the info over from the QNX box to my laptop)

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My guess would be that the driver (which is old) isn’t supporting your hardware.

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thanks for the reply,
Q; how can you tell that’s an old driver? is there a naming convention? and what would the later driver be called?
cheers

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Because you are using QNX 6.3.2, which is 4 years old.

If you check in qnx.com/developers/hardware_ … earch.html for support for device did=0x10bd you will see that the support was added in 6.4.1.

Looks like it’s a no go between your hardware and QNX 6.3.2

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ok, I’m not married to this hardware, it was for testing only so I can get a PCI card (is there a recommended one I should aim for?),
thanks for the hw search link, that’s really useful, I didn’t know that it existed.

update: cheers for the help, I nipped out to Maplin and bought a new realtek card (vid:10ec/did:8139) that works fine :slight_smile:

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Glad you found a solution.