From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 13 13:12:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA8A937B47E for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:12:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wall.polstra.com (wall-gw.polstra.com [206.213.73.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE9EB43E42 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:12:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g8DKCCf75142; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:12:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@vashon.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g8DKCCmb035360; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:12:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:12:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200209132012.g8DKCCmb035360@vashon.polstra.com> To: stable@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Cc: mfbsd@skaarup.org Subject: Re: Intels new motherboard: SHG2 In-Reply-To: <20020913193408.M92565-100000@alfred.skaarup.org> References: <20020913193408.M92565-100000@alfred.skaarup.org> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <20020913193408.M92565-100000@alfred.skaarup.org>, Rasmus Skaarup wrote: > > Hello, > > We've recently purchased two intel servers with their new motherboard > SHG2. Two on-board NICs are integrated on the motherboard. Unfortunately > FreeBSD as of version 4.6.2 cannot make use of them. They appear as: > > pci3: (vendor=0x8086 device=0x1010) at 7.0 irq 9 > pci3: (vendor=0x8086 device=0x1010) at 7.1 irq 9 > > On the intel website, they mention that the two NICs aren't identical. One > is a Pro/100+ and the other one is a Pro/100 - but both are a "Server > Network Connection" whatever that means. Those are 10/100/1000 82546EB devices. The "em" driver supports them, but the support might not have been present yet in 4.6.2. Update that driver to the -stable version and it should work. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message