From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 13 11:33:56 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C8BC16A400 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:33:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd-hardware@mawer.org) Received: from customer-domains.icp-qv1-irony10.iinet.net.au (customer-domains.icp-qv1-irony10.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7E0413C46E for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:33:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd-hardware@mawer.org) Received: from 203-206-173-235.perm.iinet.net.au (HELO [10.24.1.1]) ([203.206.173.235]) by iinet-mail.icp-qv1-irony10.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 13 Mar 2007 20:03:54 +0900 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAHYi9kXLzq3r/2dsb2JhbAANC5d6 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.14,280,1170601200"; d="scan'208"; a="14673608:sNHT7388208" Message-ID: <45F68513.8050400@mawer.org> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:03:47 +1100 From: Antony Mawer User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Aslat References: <45F5CA49.3010008@spyderweb.com.au> In-Reply-To: <45F5CA49.3010008@spyderweb.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel dq965gf & onboard thernet X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:33:56 -0000 On 13/03/2007 8:46 AM, Tim Aslat wrote: > 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 My first suggestion would be to give 6.2-RELEASE a try on this board. It should pick up the onboard Ethernet card without any hassles. Support for the onboard PATA controller has recently hit -CURRENT (thanks sos@!); I'll be attempting a backport to 6.2 for our own internal builds in the next 48 hours, so can report how that goes... for those interested, it looks like src/sys/dev/ata/ata-chipset.c, revision 1.179, is the relevant commit... --Antony