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Date:      Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:35:22 +0200
From:      Francois E Jaccard <fjaccard@runbox.com>
To:        "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: em0: Intel Pro/1000MT is not working!
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20021016163219.00bde568@node11bis>
In-Reply-To: <20021009144810.R32647-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>

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At 09/10/2002 15:03, Hartmann, O. wrote:
>Hello.
>
>I got a problem with a Intel Pro/1000MT NIC on a FreeBSD 4.7-RC box
>(cvsupdated yesterday).
>
>When booting, kernel reports the following:
>
>em0: <Intel (R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version 1.3.14> at device 
>16.0 on pci0
>em0: Memory Access and/or Bus Master bits were not set!
>em0: Unable to allocate bus resource: memory
>em0: Allocation of PCI resources failed
>device_probe_and_attach: em0 and attach returned 6
>
>The mainboard is a new VIA A7V333 (KT333 chipset), disabled RAID controller.
>Also atached: LSI Logic 21040 U160 SCSI controller (also 64 Bit/33 Mhz in 32
>Bit PCI slot).
>
>I disabled IEEE1394 device by jumper, USB2.0 and the Promise RAID chip,
>I tried the Intel PRO/1000MT NIC in each possible PCI slot, but no chance,
>it does not work. The I tried to assign an IRQ explicitely by BIOS setting
>to a specific PCI slot the NIC resides in. No effect.
>Due to the use of SCSI both IDE controllers are disabled, APIC mode is 
>enabled,
>parallel and both serial ports are disbaled, so their IRQs should be free.
>
>Can anyone help? We plan to order more Intel PRO/1000MT Server Adapters for
>all of our FreeBSD boxes. What makes the NIC working improper?
>
>At this moment I'm sorry not offering dmesg-output, but without a working NIC
>it's not possible to offer the whole dmesg output (later!).
>
>I tried the NIC in a normal PC/Windows 2000 system and it works fine. The only
>thing I did not check is whether there is something to switch within the BIOS/
>Firmware of the NIC itself.
>
>Can anyone help?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Oliver
>
>--
>MfG
>O. Hartmann
>
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Hi,
I had something similar on one of my boxes. I changed the bios setting 
"Plug and Play OS" to no so that the bios gives the IRQ to the card and it 
worked :)
The card was a 3Com 3C905B IIRC...

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