From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 30 04:32:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A30B116A4CE for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 04:32:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.tor.pathcom.com (smtp.tor.pathcom.com [209.250.128.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5495C43D31 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 04:32:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lwh@pathcom.com) Received: from pathcom.com (lwh@rdsl-0053.tor.pathcom.com [207.188.66.53]) by smtp.tor.pathcom.com (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i0UCWe3T023608; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 07:32:42 -0500 Message-ID: <401A4EE8.6060905@pathcom.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 07:32:40 -0500 From: Luke Hollins User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040127 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Slaughter References: <200401300340.TAA01625@badboy.spawar.navy.mil> In-Reply-To: <200401300340.TAA01625@badboy.spawar.navy.mil> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel probe of NICs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:32:50 -0000 lees@badboy.spawar.navy.mil wrote: > Hi, > i'm new to FreeBSD (5.1 from CD set) and grateful for it. > > i've installed one machine no problems but on another a suspect > ethernet interface has developed. It's an Asus p4p800 motherboard > with 3C940 on the board. (i'm suspect of this much integration) > > At first, messing with Debian and Suse, the card worked fine. > When i sent to installing FreeBSD no card was detected > by sysinstall->Configure->Networking->Interfaces. > Shouldn't it show up there? > ifconfig doesn't see it. > (i don't know how else to look for it) > > I plugged in another reportedly good ethernet card into a > PCI slot and no kernel probe detection there either, > but do get a green (carrier ?) light, > but no green light on the motherboard NIC. > > i've googled for 3C940 diagnostics. > don't know what to do next. > thanks for your group and any help......... I have the same motherboard, I had some issues with the card being detected on earlier versions of FreeBSD but on 5.2 its been working fine. I seem to remember the card not being autodetected but if I loaded the sk module manually it was detected right away. In 5.2 I just put "device sk" in my kernel and its working fine. It shows up as: skc0: <3Com 3C940 Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xfeafc000-0xfeafffff irq 22 at device 5.0 on pci2 skc0: 3Com Gigabit LOM (3C940) sk0: on skc0 sk0: Ethernet address: 00:0c:6e:55:6d:1a miibus0: on sk0 e1000phy0: on miibus0 e1000phy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto