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Date:      Sat, 19 Oct 2002 04:57:27 -0500
From:      Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net>
To:        David Loszewski <stealth215@attbi.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problem with network cards in server, plz help!
Message-ID:  <20021019095727.GA14918@ns1.webwarrior.net>
In-Reply-To: <3DB1544C.7060708@attbi.com>
References:  <3DB1544C.7060708@attbi.com>

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On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 07:47:08AM -0500, David Loszewski wrote:
> I have two different cards on my Netfinity 5000 server, a pci Netgear 
> FA311 (showing up as a NatSemi (sis0), and the onboard network card 
> which seems to have an AMD chipset (pcn0).   If I have the onboard 
> ethernet card enabled at all and have an active cable connected to it 
> and restart the computer it comes up on ukphy0, turns the pci error 
> light on and I get no internet access which it later makes the computer 
> reboot automatically without any warning.  If I disable that card and 
> put in a PCI Netgear card, have also tried other cards such as Intel or 
> IBM cards, once in a while it will boot normally but every once in a 
> while it will get hung up on the ukphy0 as well, giving me the same 
> problem as the onboard network and reboot itself.  At first I thought it 
> was an IRQ problem but all of my devices now have individual IRQ's set 
> in the bios and I'm still having this problem.  I'm afraid to reboot 
> this thing because I'm afraid it won't be coming back up.  Below are 
> from my dmesg, the first is when I have my onboard ethernet enabled and 
> the second is when I have the netgear installed.  Any help would be much 
> appreciated on what to do with this problem.   By the way....I'm running 
> on FreeBSD 4.6.2 but also have this problem running 4.7, I it also 
> usually hangs on the driver initialization during installation of the os.
> 
> Dave
> 
> Oct  4 21:11:36 hermes /kernel: pcn0: <AMD PCnet/PCI 10/100BaseTX> port 
> 0x2180-0
> x219f mem 0xfebfdc00-0xfebfdc1f irq 10 at device 9.0 on pci0
> Oct  4 21:11:36 hermes /kernel: pcn0: Ethernet address: 00:06:29:39:bf:a9
> Oct  4 21:11:36 hermes /kernel: miibus0: <MII bus> on pcn0
> Oct  4 21:11:36 hermes /kernel: ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media 
> interface> on
> miibus0
> Oct  4 21:11:36 hermes /kernel: ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 
> 100baseTX, 100bas
> eTX-FDX, auto
> 
> 
> pcib1: <ServerWorks NB6536 2.0HE host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
> pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
> sis0: <NatSemi DP83815 10/100BaseTX> port 0x4b00-0x4bff mem 
> 0xc0fdf000-0xc0fdffff irq 5 at device 4.0 on pci1
> sis0: Ethernet address: 00:a0:cc:76:d9:f1
> miibus0: <MII bus> on sis0
> ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
> ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> 

Do you have the Plug N Play OS option in the BIOS turned off?  If it isn't, 
set it to NO or OFF as the case may be and try again.

Josh


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