From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 12 19:14:12 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8D5516A405 for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 19:14:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xistence@0x58.com) Received: from mailexchange.osnn.net (1e.66.5646.static.theplanet.com [70.86.102.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B409213C44B for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 19:14:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xistence@0x58.com) Received: (qmail 14477 invoked by uid 0); 12 May 2007 18:43:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.10.10.22?) (xistence@0x58.com@72.208.132.56) by mailexchange.osnn.net with SMTP; 12 May 2007 18:43:45 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) In-Reply-To: <20070510125445.GA5460@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20070510111326.GA94093@hub.freebsd.org> <20070510132153.A91312@fledge.watson.org> <20070510125445.GA5460@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; boundary=Apple-Mail-5-972466620; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" Message-Id: From: Bert JW Regeer Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 11:47:25 -0700 To: Darren Reed , current@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 12 May 2007 21:35:07 +0000 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Experiences with 7.0-CURRENT and vmware. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 19:14:12 -0000 --Apple-Mail-5-972466620 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On May 10, 2007, at 5:54 AM, Darren Reed wrote: > [...] > >> But if if_em is probing, it suggests a VMware >> change rather than a FreeBSD change, which you may be able to >> revert by >> telling it to expose a Lance-style device as opposed to an Intel >> device. > > There's no way to choose the type of card vmware emulates. > I always set my VMWare to expose an intel e1000 card, which gets probed correctly by almost all systems, even Windows with the Intel drivers installed. In your .vmx file you should find a line like this: ethernet0.virtualDev="e1000" If VMWare is to give an em device, if you remove that line it should default back to lnc driver. That being said, I have had no performance problems with the em driver on FreeBSD 6.0 in VMWare, and have not had the timeout problems you mentioned. > Darren Bert JW Regeer --Apple-Mail-5-972466620--