kern/148004: Inconsistent networking with em driver on FreeBSD 8.0-p2

[Bill Clark]

The following reply was made to PR kern/148004; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bill Clark <wclark at xoom.org>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/148004: Inconsistent networking with em driver on FreeBSD 
	8.0-p2
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 23:15:58 -0700

 I tried the steps from this recommendation in the README for the
 driver from Intel (since it sounded very much like the problem I'm
 experiencing) but it did not help:
 
  82541/82547 can't link or is slow to link with some link partners
   -----------------------------------------------------------------
 
   There is a known compatibility issue where time to link is slow or link i=
 s not
   established between 82541/82547 controllers and some switches.  Known swi=
 tches
   include:
         Planex FXG-08TE
         I-O Data ETG-SH8
 
   The driver can be compiled with the following changes:
 
   Edit ./em.x.x.x/src/if_em.h to change the #define EM_MASTER_SLAVE
   For example, change from:
 
       #define EM_MASTER_SLAVE   e1000_ms_hw_default
   to:
       #define EM_MASTER_SLAVE   2
 
 On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:20 PM,  <FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org> wrote=
 :
 > Thank you very much for your problem report.
 > It has the internal identification `kern/148004'.
 > The individual assigned to look at your
 > report is: freebsd-bugs.
 >
 > You can access the state of your problem report at any time
 > via this link:
 >
 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D148004
 >
 >>Category: =A0 =A0 =A0 kern
 >>Responsible: =A0 =A0freebsd-bugs
 >>Synopsis: =A0 =A0 =A0 Inconsistent networking with em driver on FreeBSD 8=
 .0-p2
 >>Arrival-Date: =A0 Sun Jun 20 05:20:02 UTC 2010
 >