From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 11 14:02:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D8DF1065679 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:02:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AB388FC08 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:02:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C96F71CC0C0; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:02:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:02:49 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Josh Paetzel Message-ID: <20080811140249.GA27379@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <489C4129.4090303@vervier.info> <489C88DB.6030000@vervier.info> <2a41acea0808081131m1eddc4caib0963c8a5443afd2@mail.gmail.com> <200808110819.53914.josh@tcbug.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200808110819.53914.josh@tcbug.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: Markus Vervier , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Jack Vogel Subject: Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:02:50 -0000 On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 08:19:46AM +0000, Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Friday 08 August 2008 06:31:24 pm Jack Vogel wrote: > > OK, I just got access to a machine, am going to install and see if I > > can repro this > > this afternoon. > > > > Jack > > For what it's worth, I have a T60 that dual boots 6.3-R/amd64 and 7.0-R/i386 > and neither install has this problem. I can cold boot it with the NIC > unplugged, plug in a cable, I get a link light and ifconfig em0 goes to > active, dhclient em0 gets an IP successfully. As promised, I tested said issue out on my T60p (widescreen) tonight, using both FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE and 7.0-RELEASE. I wasn't able to reproduce the issue; so my experience was the same as Josh. I can also boot it with the CAT5 inserted, dhclient fetch an IP, no LED oddities -- then yank the cable (LED and link light go off), re-insert the cable, and within a moment or so dhclient again gets an IP. I'm left wondering if maybe there's an EEPROM setting that's doing this (purely speculative on my part), or possibly some odd BIOS quirk. My T60p (widescreen) is running BIOS 1.14. It's worth noting that the non-widescreen T60p uses a different BIOS. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |