Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:38:00 -0000 (GMT) From: "Chris Howells" <howells@kde.org> To: "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Chris Howells <howells@kde.org> Subject: Re: Which motherboards work well with em(4)? Message-ID: <51496.192.168.0.1.1140464280.squirrel@webmail.devrandom.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0602201104v1c160788rf9db6bb5c96e7b34@mail.gmail.com> References: <63472.192.168.0.1.1140456976.squirrel@webmail.devrandom.org.uk> <2a41acea0602201104v1c160788rf9db6bb5c96e7b34@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Jack,
On Mon, February 20, 2006 7:04 pm, Jack Vogel wrote:
> I can't really help you with the AMD motherboard, dont get much chance to
> work with them at Intel :)
Lol. I did wonder if the Intel NICs might be programmed to do this in
protest at being in a board with a Via chipset and AMD CPU ;)
Going down the Intel-everything route is something I considered but
unfortunately I can't afford a Pentium D and I'm hesitant at using a
Pentium 4 without powersaving in servers on 24x7.
> However, I wondered exactly what NIC you have?
OK, one of the machines (the one running 6.0-REL) has a:
em0@pci0:19:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10028086 chip=0x10268086 rev=0x04
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '82545GM Gigabit Ethernet Controller'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
(64 bit PCI card running in a 32 bit slot)
The other (the one running 6.1 pre) has a:
em0@pci0:13:0: class=0x020000 card=0x002e8086 chip=0x100e8086 rev=0x02
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
> And have you tried taking the tip of tree driver, Scott and others have
> been
> hard at work tweaking it. I can't swear that we are 100% yet, but you
> should give that a try before a whole motherboard swap :)
You are talking about the 7.0 current driver I assume? That sounds like a
good idea especially if it's had lots of improvements. I'll give that a go
in a day or two hopefully.
It also occurred to me that I haven't experimented with polling, so I'm
doing that now on one of the machines.
Thanks.
--
Cheers, Chris Howells -- howells@kde.org
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