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

[Andre Oppermann]

Jack Vogel wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Fuchs, Martin
> <martin.fuchs at trendchiller.com> wrote:
>> Hi !
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.... :)

fxp(4) doesn't have a real maintainer anymore.  I've sent a nice
collection of fxp cards and revisions thereof to Pyun YongHyeon
in hope of tricking him to become the future maintainer.  He's
pretty busy with more recent gigabit cards though and I'm not sure
when/if he can assume that role.

-- 
Andre

> If no one speaks up then we will see again...
> 
> Jack
> 
>> 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...
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Is there anything I can tot o make it work for now or is it a known
>> problem or else ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> looking forward to hear from you,
>>
>>
>>
>> Martin
>>
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