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Subject: Re: bge0 interface seen but not working
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On Saturday, January 14, 2012 5:53:58 pm YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 08:55:51AM -0800, Bill Norton wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I posted this on the pc-bsd forum and was directed here.?
> > 
> > I installed the latest 8.X and the interface worked fine.?
> > 
> > Yesterday, I did a clean install of 9.0.?
> > 
> > The issue is that the bge0 interface is not working.?
> > It is seen by the kernel(ifconfig shows it) but just won't ping.
> > I have tried dhcp and a static address.?
> > I used a backtrack live cd and this worked fine.?
> > 
> 
> Probably disabling MSI will workaround your issue. Add
> 
> hw.pci.enable_msi="0"
> 
> to /boot/loader.conf.
> 
> > 
> > I did find this bug below but it seemed to only affect 8.2
> > 
> > The bge(4) Ethernet driver has a known issue where the interface is seen 
but does not respond to networking requests. A patch is available for 8.2 (see 
155442) and the driver will be fixed in 8.3.
> > 
> > Any ideas??
> > 
> 
> I thought it was already fixed by John but it seems it is not.
> John, would you take a look?(NVIDIA HT MSI issue)?

It is not fully resolved.  9 has some different changes, but those changes 
broke other systems.  It seems MSI on NVIDIA HT systems requires a lot of 
extra quirks to actually work.

-- 
John Baldwin