From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 4 23:17:16 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E66516A41F for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 23:17:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mi@corbulon.video-collage.com) Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net (vms046pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAF5443D45 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 23:17:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mi@corbulon.video-collage.com) Received: from corbulon.video-collage.com ([151.204.231.237]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0IPG0073RE0MZ1P3@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for hardware@freebsd.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2005 17:17:11 -0600 (CST) Received: from corbulon.video-collage.com (smmsp@localhost.video-collage.com [127.0.0.1]) by corbulon.video-collage.com (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jA4NH9LC087199 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:17:09 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by corbulon.video-collage.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id jA4NGxgR087195; Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:16:59 -0500 (EST envelope-from mi) Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:16:59 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin In-reply-to: <436A9CD1.60409@dial.pipex.com> To: xfb52@dial.pipex.com (Alex Zbyslaw) Message-id: <200511042316.jA4NGxgR087195@corbulon.video-collage.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV devel-20050525/1162/Thu Nov 3 12:15:03 2005 on corbulon.video-collage.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.43 Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: skc0: unknown media type: 0x0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 23:17:16 -0000 > From the source code, the driver is trying to read the media type > setting from the eeprom and failing to get anything it understands. > This looks like only the second bit of info that is looked at from the > eeprom, and the first bit wouldn't give an error if it too was returning > 0x0. This is just my quick reading of the code, though! I would > definitely be starting to think that adding the memory triggered a > hardware problem, perhaps static, or something physical. I am very afraid of that :-( The motherboard was not cheap (although refurbished) and replacing it is a pain even if it were free. > Presumably you don't have another OS installed on the machine ( look> Windows or Linux) because if it too couldn't see the ethernet that > would be a strong indicator of hardware problems. I'm going to try installing something else. I need to check a slow-writing harddrive too. Thanks, -mi