From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 16 8: 4:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BED3337B401 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 08:04:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c18070.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au (c18070.belrs1.nsw.optusnet.com.au [210.49.78.171]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 87EE543EDE for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 08:04:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajmawer@optusnet.com.au) Received: (qmail 25284 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2002 15:04:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO optusnet.com.au) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 16 Oct 2002 15:04:42 -0000 Message-ID: <3DAD800F.5010900@optusnet.com.au> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 01:04:47 +1000 From: Antony Mawer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20020929 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Hartmann, O." Cc: Francois E Jaccard , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: em0: Intel Pro/1000MT is not working! References: <20021016164051.M91543-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hartmann, O. wrote: > Indeed, the simple fix for this problem was to disable PnP OS. > Now, the em0 NIC is recognized well as expected and works fine. The number of times I've seen such a question asked and this turns out to be the answer is something of a joke. Is it worthwhile/feasible to add a small message that's displayed along with such "device_probe_and_attach: xxx and attach returned 6" messages that suggests to the user to check their BIOS to ensure PNP OS is off? -Antony To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message