Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 09:46:35 +0300 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Gigabit support Message-ID: <E17B8qR-000KTB-00@cse.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: Message from Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com> of "Thu, 23 May 2002 11:27:29 PDT." <bulk.77429.20020523112729@hub.freebsd.org>
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> >>>>> "DB" == Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> writes: > > DB> hi, > DB> is there any reason not to use the if_em driver? i'm asking because > DB> it's not mentioned in GENERIC while the wx is, and as far as i know > DB> developement there has stopped. > this was corrected minutes after my posting! that's what i call service! > It is also not mentioned in /boot/defaults/loader.conf as a possible > module to pre-load, and it is not in LINT, which is worrisome. The > only mention of it seems to be the man page and the existence of the > loadable module. the reason for my posting was that it started to act up on me! it's working fine on several machines (4.5, 5.RC1) but on 4.6 as of some days ago: the diskless boot hangs: pxe loads ok, the kernel is loaded ok, but when looking fot the rootnfs, sniffing shows: [...] 09:05:07.381261 arp who-has athlon-mp.cs.huji.ac.il tell athlon-mp.cs.huji.ac.il 09:05:07.682722 arp who-has gto.cs.huji.ac.il tell athlon-mp.cs.huji.ac.il 09:05:07.682738 arp reply gto.cs.huji.ac.il is-at 0:2:b3:91:5e:83 09:05:07.910407 :: > ff02::1:ff9f:a99b: icmp6: neighbor sol: who has fe80::202:b3ff:fe9f:a99b 09:05:08.690556 arp who-has gto.cs.huji.ac.il tell athlon-mp.cs.huji.ac.il 09:05:08.690572 arp reply gto.cs.huji.ac.il is-at 0:2:b3:91:5e:83 for ever ... this happens most of the time, sometimes it works ok! and sniffing shows: [...] 09:01:14.748425 arp who-has gto.cs.huji.ac.il tell athlon-mp.cs.huji.ac.il 09:01:14.748441 arp reply gto.cs.huji.ac.il is-at 0:2:b3:91:5e:83 09:01:14.748578 athlon-mp.cs.huji.ac.il.2007237710 > gto.cs.huji.ac.il.nfs: 92 getattr fh 974,822649/2 the same machine has no problems diskless booting 4.5 nor 5RC1. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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