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Date:      Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:00:18 +0100
From:      Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mars G Miro <spry@anarchy.in.the.ph>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: igb on a Nehalem system, buildworld stats
Message-ID:  <20090108220018.GB1300@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 02:50:45AM +0800, Mars G Miro wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well, I am at Intel you know, and even we don't seem to have any systems
> > with
> > 82576 down in my group here. The way link works I can be about 99.9% su=
re
> > in saying its not the driver. Its preproduction so there are lots of
> > possibilities,
> > and the biggest problem is its going to be difficult to help when I don=
't
> > have any
> > such hardware :(
> >
> > I've heard from the 1G product team that they have seen EEPROM mismatch=
es
> > on systems that will result in things not working in funny ways.
>=20
>=20
> Jahh, I've seen those but not w/ Intel NICs. I believe it was from
> Broadcom on some IBM x3455? (IIRC) and it was indeed quite amusing ;-)
>=20
>=20
> >
> > If you have a back to back connection to another NIC on Port 0, no swit=
ch,
> > does
> > it still autoneg to 100?
> >
>=20
> I will have do that tomorrow as I am @home now ;-)
>=20
> btw, another data point, during sysinstall, we encountered:
>=20
>   <unknown network interface type> on both the igbs.
>=20

This is due to missing a missing device entry in the sysinstall code.
Unfortunately there are entries missing for several new drivers, I will
commit a patch to fix this soon.

Anyway, it shouldn't be related to your problems.

- Christian

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