exclude device from bus probe?

[Göran Löwkrantz]

No, that does not work. On a different host, that has an dedicated IPMI 
NIC, I have a dropdown with the alternatives Dedicated, Share and Failover 
but on this I only have a grayed out Share, no alternatives and no choices. 
So this seems to be something hardwired in the MB.

I will do a PR on the hit stuff.


/glz

--On September 18, 2012 14:55:48 +0000 jb <jb1234abcd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Göran Löwkrantz <goran.lowkrantz <at> ismobile.com> writes:
>
>>
>> We have a system based on Supermicro X7SPA-HF with IPMI connected via a
>> shared 82574L NIC. We are not using this NIC for anything from the OS
>> but  the probing and device attach breaks the IPMI connection so bad
>> FBSD don't  see any screen during boot. There is no BIOS flag that
>> disables the NIC  from the OS, only a HW strap but that dsables the IPMI
>> also.
>> ...
>
> I assume you should be able to configure the NIC thru IPMI (quote from
> Google-found thread:
> ... "go to ipmi panel and choose "share" for "Lan Interface" ...).
>
> Btw, after you finished resolving the issue and collecting facts, please
> consider filing a Problem Report with FreeBSD - that device hint
> disabling em0 and bringing down both em0 and em1 interfaces should be
> looked at by devs, I guess - after all, they should be two independent
> net ports, as they have two distinct MACs.
> I believe you said em0 is LAN, and em1 is IPMI.
>
> jb
>
>
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