Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 09:30:10 -0500 From: John Jasen <jjasen@gmail.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10.1: Intel dual port 10GbE card (82599EB) second port not present? (Steven Hartland) Message-ID: <54DCB8F2.5090809@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <mailman.79.1423742401.43777.freebsd-net@freebsd.org> References: <mailman.79.1423742401.43777.freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
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> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 20:47:15 +0000 > From: Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> > To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10.1: Intel dual port 10GbE card (82599EB): > second port not present? > Message-ID: <54DBBFD3.7010801@multiplay.co.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed <snip> > Your problem looks like its the SFP's which are "unsupported" to which > the attach will fail with error EIO (5). > > You can set hw.ix.unsupported_sfp=1 in /boot/loader.conf to enable > unsupported SFP's but be aware you "doing so your on your own". Thanks! hw.ix.unsupported_sfp=1 corrected the immediate problem. The network port that didn't come up does not yet have an SFP module installed It seems the default behavior in FreeBSD is to not have the interface available until a SFP is inserted. While a corner case, this does make configuration prior to installation a bit more annoying.
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