bad em NIC or new unrecognized NIC ?

Bob Bishop rb at gid.co.uk
Thu Feb 26 11:26:50 PST 2004


Hi,

At 18:25 26/2/04, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>One of the EM nics we just got in comes up with
>
>em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 1.7.19> port 
>0x9000-0x903f mem 0xe8700000-0xe871ffff,0xe86e0000-0xe86fffff irq 5 at 
>device 0.0 on pci1
>em0: The EEPROM Checksum Is Not Valid
>em0: Unable to initialize the hardware
>device_probe_and_attach: em0 attach returned 5
>
>when booting. Is this just a dud or just not recognized ?

FWIW I get something very similar under 5.2.1-RC2 on my shiny new ThinkPad 
T41, so it's likely just not recognised.

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