Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:16:49 +1030 From: Tim Aslat <tim@spyderweb.com.au> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Intel dq965gf & onboard thernet Message-ID: <45F5CA49.3010008@spyderweb.com.au>
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Hi All, I have a server I'm building up for production within a small company, and I'm using this particular board. Initially I had trouble with the onboard PATA controller now being recognised, so I got around that with an external USB CD-ROM for installing. My problem is actually concerned with the onboard Intel EtherExpress Pro 1000. I can't make it connect at 1000baseTX at all, although the 100baseTX works fine, as long as I let it autodetect. If I manually configure the 100baseTX using ifconfig, I get a lot of errors on the interface and I'm not sure of the exact cause. Currenly installed is the following version of FreeBSD with a custom kernel # uname -a FreeBSD mail.biocentral-labs.com 6.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 #2: Wed Oct 11 19:14:10 CST 2006 Kernel mods are include GENERIC ident BIOCENTRAL device smbus # added for smbus hardware monitoring device iicsmb device iicbus device iicbb device iic options MROUTING # Multicast routing options IPFIREWALL #firewall options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE #enable logging to syslogd(8) options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD #enable transparent proxy support options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=100 #limit verbosity options IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT #allow everything by default options IPDIVERT #divert sockets options IPFILTER #ipfilter support options IPFILTER_LOG #ipfilter logging options IPSTEALTH #support for stealth forwarding options TCPDEBUG options DUMMYNET # reboot if kernel panics options KDB_UNATTENDED options PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME=16 Currently I'm getting around the problem by using a pci card (Intel Etherexpress BT I think, would have to open the case to check for sure. This is the dmesg output for the onboard ethernet em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.2.9> port 0x30c0-0x30df mem 0x50300000-0x5031ffff,0x50324000-0x50324fff irq 20 at device 25.0 on pci0 and this is the dmesg output from the card em1: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.2.9> port 0x1000-0x103f mem 0x50020000-0x5003ffff,0x50000000-0x5001ffff irq 22 at device 1.0 on pci6 Is anyone else using this model mainboard and have a workaround for the ethernet connection speed problem? Regards Tim -- Tim Aslat <tim@spyderweb.com.au> Spyderweb Consulting http://www.spyderweb.com.au Mobile: +61 0401088479
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