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Date:      Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:39:21 -0400
From:      Kenneth Culver <culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz>
To:        Michael Clark <MClark@Nemschoff.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: em0 Intel Gigabit card, rc.conf processing on boot
Message-ID:  <20040628163921.ps0400cwosw04gg8@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz>
In-Reply-To: <A2A28DB6D52E084783ACD6E6C6F5D79001F3A81B@EMAILSERVER2.nemschoff.com>
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Quoting Michael Clark <MClark@Nemschoff.com>:

> I have 2 fxp Intel 100mb cards in this machine that work fine.  I have ran
> it with 3 fxp
> cards in the past.  I added an em0, Intel gigabit this morning.  The card
> displays a
> non active status during the boot process.  RC.conf is processed and the
> card
> does not get an ip address, while the fxp cards do.  Later in the boot
> process
> in bright white letters it shows the card status has changed to active.  I
> believe my
> problems getting rc.conf to assign the IP address are related to this.  Any
> suggestions
> would be appreciated.
>
> 5.2-p2 (feb)
>
I have also noticed that this card takes a while to become active... but I've
been able to get an IP using dhcp anyway... it just takes a bit longer 
than for
the 100Mbit/sec cards.

Ken



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