From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 23 18:17:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67E8616A4CE for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:17:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from scode.mine.nu (c-bbde71d5.05-152-7570701.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se [213.113.222.187]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D7CF43FE0 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:17:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter.schuller@infidyne.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by scode.mine.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AFFD632E0; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 03:22:15 +0100 (CET) From: Peter Schuller To: Randy Bush , Eric Anderson Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 03:22:14 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <3FC151D1.9040905@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311240322.14884.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: em0 on install X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 02:17:32 -0000 > >> trying to install using the 5.1-release mini cd and em0. it seems not > >> to dhcp (looked with tcpdump) despite my saying Yes (and no to ipv6). > >> am i missing a clue? [snip] > this is a thinkpad t40p. 4.9-release cdrom boots through to em0 > media just fine, and i just retested that assertion without moving > any wires etc. I have seen this on the T40p. The "solution" is to disable the cardbus support. I have detailed my experience with this laptop at http://www.scode.org/freebsdt40p.html The relevant part is this: "The gigabit ethernet interface - em0 - worked perfectly during installation. When I booted the resulting system however, it no longer worked. The driver failed to load properly during boot with an error regarding the EEPROM checksum being invalid. I found this post which indicated the em0 driver "broke" support on the X31 somewhere between 5.0-RELEASE and 5.1-RELEASE. I tried using the old 5.0 driver in 5.1, aswell as removing the checksum check in the 5.1 driver. No luck. I eventually figured out that the pcmcia support seemed to break just about everything, including the em driver. When the cardbus bridge (cdb) was commented out in the kernel configuration, em0 suddenly worked perfectly. So basically, a good idea in general is to strip down unused stuff in the kernel configuration, but specifically the cardbus bridge. " This is the post referenced in the above paragraph: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-i386/2003-June/000047.html (note: i'm not on -current, so please CC any responses that are meant for me to respond to, thanks!) -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller ' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to getpgpkey@scode.org E-Mail: peter.schuller@infidyne.com Web: http://www.scode.org