From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 23:59:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C4D216A4CE; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:59:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D97CD43D41; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:59:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from craig.freebsd@online.de) Received: from [212.227.126.206] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1CwUPF-0001NQ-00; Thu, 03 Feb 2005 00:59:33 +0100 Received: from [217.231.72.159] (helo=[192.168.0.90]) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1CwUPE-00049T-00; Thu, 03 Feb 2005 00:59:33 +0100 Message-ID: <42016966.1000702@online.de> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 00:59:34 +0100 From: craig Organization: small-pla.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050121) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:13d873e74d14c1363715808660186da0 Subject: if_sk : the weirdest thing! X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: craig.freebsd@online.de List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 23:59:34 -0000 my machine has a hdd swap-rack which allows me to boot different os's off different physical drives. (ie. pull-out xp, and plug in fbsd). i recently purchased another hdd+tray to install gentoo on, just to see what the fuss is about. i booted off the 2004.3 minimal install cd but it did not, unfortuanately, automatically find my realtek gigabit nic. i suspected it might not, because i had a hell of time getting it to work on fbsd aswell - requiring a patched if_sk driver to get it going. after a bit of digging, i found that i could # modprobe sk98lin to get the kernel happy with the nic. once up, it worked like a charm. it got late and i needed to finish up some work on fbsd, so i pulled the gentoo drive out, plugged fbsd back in and booted up. when it came up, i found that i was without a network! # dmesg | grep sk said something about (IIRC) (blah) skc0: no PHY found # ifconfig confirmed that there was no net when i tried to manually # kldload if_sk freebsd panic'ed and died right there! i rebooted a few times (a trick i learnt from ms) but still it would not come back. even powering the machine completely down did not help!!! so i plugged in the winxp drive and booted. it came up fine, network in good working order. i booted fbsd again and the network came up this time without a complaint! AND I CAN REPLICATE THIS MADNESS! boot fbsd - check network = all okay boot gentoo livecd - load sk98lin - check network = all okay boot fbsd - check network = notwork! (remedy) boot wxp - check network = all okay boot fbsd - check network = all okay wtf??? i understand that my GF would be upset if i played around with other girls, but does my OS have to be *so damn jealous*???? any ideas whats on here? -- craig@small-pla.net