Intel 865GBF motherboard Ethernet ?

[John Baldwin]

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.

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