trying to make a Toshiba Satellite Pro A300 work with FreeBSD 8-CURRENT (2008.11)

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 04:39:52PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
 > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 3:21 PM, John . <comp.john at googlemail.com> wrote:
 > > Hi,
 > >
 > > Toshiba A300 Satellite Pro PSAK13 (AMD Turion 64)
 > >
 > > It works for the most part, except for wifi or ethernet :(
 > >
 > > X not tested unfer FreeBSD
 > >
 > > dmesg at http://www.growveg.org/laptop/freebsd/fbsd8_current_200811_dmesg.txt
 > > pciconf at http://www.growveg.org/laptop/freebsd/fbsd8_current_200811_pciconf.txt
 > >
 > > Can anyone tell me if there is a chance getting the onboard wifi to work?
 > >
 > > Linux (latest ubuntu 64 bit) doesn't see it either (though it does
 > > detect ethernet)
 > >
 > > thanks
 > > --
 > > John
 > 
 > Looks like the ethernet chipset might be another PCI ID not covered by msk(4).
 > 
 > none3 at pci0:4:0:0:	class=0x020000 card=0xff501179 chip=0x436c11ab
 > rev=0x16 hdr=0x00
 >     vendor     = 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Ltd)'
 >     class      = network
 >     subclass   = ethernet
 >     cap 01[48] = powerspec 3  supports D0 D1 D2 D3  current D0
 >     cap 05[5c] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit
 >     cap 10[c0] = PCI-Express 2 legacy endpoint
 > 
 > I CC'ed Pyun, but I'm not sure that anything can be done because this
 > is a PCI-e based driver *shrugs*.
 > 

It looks like 88E8072(Yukon Extreme). It's not supported yet and it
requires more code to support newer Tx descriptor format as well as
new workaround for this controller. I don't have these hardwares
and it's somewhat hard to write a patch without accessing hardware.

 > As for the wireless driver, could you forward with more details about
 > your laptop, like the spec sheet, perhaps? We'll need the model type
 > for the laptop at least so we can find out the required specs (Toshiba
 > releases various revisions of each model with different specs).
 > 
 > You won't get 64-bit X11 support with hardware acceleration because
 > neither nVidia or ATI has a working 64-bit driver due to vmem related
 > reasons.
 > 
 > -Garrett

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon