From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 12 22:29:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6AE5106566C for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:29:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@vindaloo.com) Received: from corellia.vindaloo.com (corellia.vindaloo.com [64.51.148.100]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 729648FC0C for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:29:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@vindaloo.com) Received: from kessel.vindaloo.com (kessel.vindaloo.com [172.24.145.71]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by corellia.vindaloo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 665E05CC2; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:29:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Sean Hilton To: Robert Huff In-Reply-To: <18513.35422.743692.625387@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <1C4CC81A-1524-43D6-87D2-72EE4306ADF5@vindaloo.com> <18513.33023.792318.227404@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <1B73754D-9642-4724-9F3D-8E4019136421@vindaloo.com> <18513.35422.743692.625387@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Message-Id: <5FD38325-F798-49D5-825D-C148DF2549BB@vindaloo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924) Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:29:31 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.924) Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Intel Dual PRO/1000 Nic - Setup of shared code failed X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:29:35 -0000 On Jun 12, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Robert Huff wrote: > > Christopher Sean Hilton writes: > >>>> I just got an Intel Dual gigabit nic that I planned to use with >>>> FreeBSD 7-STABLE. >>> >>> I'm using this on >>> >>> FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sat Apr 19 23:17:00 EDT 2008 i386 >>> >>> >>> with no problems. >> >> Sounds cool. I had one going in an older laptop as early as 5.x- >> STABLE >> I'm pretty sure it's strongly supported by FreeBSD. > > Actually, the code is cotributed/maintained by Intel. > >> Did you have to do anything special to get it going? > > huff@>> more /boot/loader.conf | grep _em > if_em_load="YES" > > Your mileage may vary. Yeah, my first instinct was to assume that the em driver isn't in the GENERIC kernel to so I did this: # kldload -v if_em Which promptly fired back a bunch of errors about duplicate symbols. At that time I figured that the em module is already loaded into the GENERIC kernel. This was confirmed by doing: # grep '^device.*em' /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC device mly # Mylex AcceleRAID/eXtremeRAID device em # Intel PRO/1000 adapter Gigabit Ethernet Card device nge # NatSemi DP83820 gigabit Ethernet ... I can try that later but given that the em driver is already in the kernel I don't expect it to bear fruit. However, can you do a kldstat on your machine with the em card? It will tell me if there is some firmware module or something that I'm missing. -- Chris P.S. In digging around on Google I found kern/117926 in the Bug tracking system. Chris Hilton e: chris|at|vindaloo| dot|com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The pattern juggler lifts his hand; The orchestra begin. As slowly turns the grinding wheel in the court of the crimson king." -- Ian McDonald / Peter Sinfield