em driver problem on vmware

[Ricky Charlet]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: juli at clockworksquid.com [mailto:juli at clockworksquid.com] On
> Behalf Of Juli Mallett
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 6:55 PM
> To: Ricky Charlet
> Cc: freebsd-net at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: em driver problem on vmware
>
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 17:07, Ricky  Charlet <RCharlet at adaranet.com>
> wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >        I have freebsd80-release with an upgraded em0 driver from
> freebsd8.1 (and an appropriate touch of if_var.h). I'm running an amd64
> on a  vmware vm.  And I see this in dmesg:
> >
> > ------------cut-------------
> > em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection 6.9.14> port 0x2000-203f
> mem 0xd8940000-0xd895ffff, 0xd8900000-0xd890ffff irq 18 at device 0.0
> on pci2
> > em0: Memory Access and/or Bus Master bits were not set
> > em0: [FILTER]
> > em0: Ethernet address: 00:0c:29:57:d7:7f
> > ------------paste------------
> >
> >        But, on the other hand, has anyone seen the new em driver
> working/failing on a vmware vm?
>
> "Memory Access and/or Bus Master bits were not set" is not a fatal
> error, it is correctable, indeed that is printed out when it is
> corrected; that is not something to worry about in and of itself as
> such, are you actually having a problem or just concerned because you
> saw that in dmesg?


 It is truly not working. I agree those lines in dmesg are good and indicate em0 is ready. but `ifconfig` does not see em0.


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Ricky Charlet
Adara Networks
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