Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:29:31 -0400 From: Christopher Sean Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Intel Dual PRO/1000 Nic - Setup of shared code failed Message-ID: <5FD38325-F798-49D5-825D-C148DF2549BB@vindaloo.com> In-Reply-To: <18513.35422.743692.625387@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <1C4CC81A-1524-43D6-87D2-72EE4306ADF5@vindaloo.com> <18513.33023.792318.227404@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <1B73754D-9642-4724-9F3D-8E4019136421@vindaloo.com> <18513.35422.743692.625387@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Jun 12, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Robert Huff wrote:
>
> Christopher Sean Hilton writes:
>
>>>> I just got an Intel Dual gigabit nic that I planned to use with
>>>> FreeBSD 7-STABLE.
>>>
>>> I'm using this on
>>>
>>> FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sat Apr 19 23:17:00 EDT 2008 i386
>>>
>>>
>>> with no problems.
>>
>> Sounds cool. I had one going in an older laptop as early as 5.x-
>> STABLE
>> I'm pretty sure it's strongly supported by FreeBSD.
>
> Actually, the code is cotributed/maintained by Intel.
>
>> Did you have to do anything special to get it going?
>
> huff@>> more /boot/loader.conf | grep _em
> if_em_load="YES"
>
> Your mileage may vary.
Yeah, my first instinct was to assume that the em driver isn't in the
GENERIC kernel to so I did this:
# kldload -v if_em
Which promptly fired back a bunch of errors about duplicate symbols.
At that time I figured that the em module is already loaded into the
GENERIC kernel. This was confirmed by doing:
# grep '^device.*em' /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
device mly # Mylex AcceleRAID/eXtremeRAID
device em # Intel PRO/1000 adapter Gigabit
Ethernet Card
device nge # NatSemi DP83820 gigabit Ethernet
...
I can try that later but given that the em driver is already in the
kernel I don't expect it to bear fruit. However, can you do a kldstat
on your machine with the em card? It will tell me if there is some
firmware module or something that I'm missing.
-- Chris
P.S. In digging around on Google I found kern/117926 in the Bug
tracking system.
Chris Hilton e: chris|at|vindaloo|
dot|com
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