[Soekris] lan1621 and sis attachment order

[Matt Peterson]

Maybe this is a BIOS thing?  On recently bought 4801, the order is 
correct, the add-on lan1621 shows up as sis3 & 4.

Mitja Muženič wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've been testing a lan1621 dual nic in my trusty old 4501 running OpenBSD
> and found a unpleasant surprise: the additional two ports are attached as
> sis0,1 and force the on-board ports to sis 2,3,4. This messes up the case
> labels and forces the user to swap around LAN cables after the upgrade.
> 
> sis0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x00: DP83816A, irq12,
> address 00:00:24:c3:47:d4
> nsphyter0 at sis0 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 integrated, rev. 1
> sis1 at pci1 dev 1 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x00: DP83816A, irq12,
> address 00:00:24:c3:47:d5
> nsphyter1 at sis1 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 integrated, rev. 1
> sis2 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x00: DP83815D,
> irq11, address 00:00:24:c0:af:90
> nsphyter2 at sis2 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 integrated, rev. 1
> sis3 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x00: DP83815D, irq5,
> address 00:00:24:c0:af:91
> nsphyter3 at sis3 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 integrated, rev. 1
> sis4 at pci0 dev 20 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x00: DP83815D, irq9,
> address 00:00:24:c0:af:92
> nsphyter4 at sis4 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 integrated, rev. 1
> 
> Following my query on OpenBSD mailing lists I received a response from Theo
> de Raadt basically stating that this is soekris specific and there is
> nothing much that can be done in code to fix that.
> 
> I'm looking for other people's experiences with this card, even with other
> OSes. 
> 
> Soren, if you are reading this, is this a pure hardware issue or can it be
> fixed in bios?
> 
> 
> Regards, Mitja
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Soekris-tech mailing list
> Soekris-tech at lists.soekris.com
> http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
> 

-- 
Matt Peterson         another.geek.without.a.life
matt at peterson.org       http://matt.peterson.org/
38B4 B706 3BA7 97B7 F638 1198 6AB4 CDF2 552A 0DC9
                                                --