Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:57:42 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: David =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sieb=F6rger?= <drs@rucus.ru.ac.za> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel 865GBF motherboard Ethernet ? Message-ID: <XFMail.20030626135742.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030625114359.GA908@rucus.net>
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On 25-Jun-2003 David Siebörger wrote: > At 5:27 AM on Wednesday 25 June 2003, Joe McGuckin wrote: >> Is the ethernet of this motherboard supported on 4.8? >> >> The 4.8-RELEASE CDROM does not find an ethernet device upon bootup. > > I'm willing to bet that this is the same issue that was discussed on > this list under subject "onboard intel pro 100 ve problems on 4.8 rel > and 5.1" a day or two ago. See these posts in the archive: > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=0+0+current/freebsd-hardware > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=25633+0+current/freebsd-hardware > > If that doesn't help, please post the output from dmesg or "pciconf > -lv". The onboard ethernet on the 865 is a gige part whose PCI ID is not supported in 4.8-RELEASE. It uses the em(4) driver. If you update to 4.8-STABLE (you can update just the em(4) driver if you want to) then it should work fine. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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