Intel embedded NICs not working with FreeBSD 6.2, 6.3 and 7.0

[Jack Vogel]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Fuchs, Martin
<martin.fuchs at trendchiller.com> wrote:
> Hi !
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> I am in contact with Chris Buechler because of pfSense and we he told me
> to contact Jack Vogel because of some Intel NIC driver problem.

The FreeBSD fxp driver was not written by Intel and I have had nothing
to do with it in my tenure in this position.

The real maintainer of that driver should help you.... :)

If no one speaks up then we will see again...

Jack

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> FreeBSD detects them as fxp cards which is correct, but they do not work
> at all, i tried in ACPI and non-ACPI mode and with enabled ROM and
> disabled ROM and everything, but I cannot get them working...
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> I always get "fxp0 timeout" or fxpX fort he corresponding card... I read
> it might have something to do with dynamic powersaving mode or else but
> have no clue how to deactivate, there's no option in the ROM for this.
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> It's an appliance board (NexCom EBC575) with Intel 845GV / Intel 82801DB
> (ICH4)-chipset and 2 x Intel 82551QM (PRO/100 Network Connection), 1 x
> ICH4 integrated LAN Int on board.
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> Is there anything I can tot o make it work for now or is it a known
> problem or else ?
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> Regards,
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> looking forward to hear from you,
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> Martin
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