bad em NIC or new unrecognized NIC ?

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Thu Feb 26 11:57:30 PST 2004


At 02:26 PM 26/02/2004, Bob Bishop wrote:
>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.



Actually, I worked around the problem by swapping its location with an fxp 
next to it.  For some reason the em does not seem to like sharing its 
interrupt with agp0 ? The fxp seems happy enough to do it however.


agp0: <Intel 82845G (845G GMCH) SVGA controller> mem 
0xe8800000-0xe887ffff,0xe0000000-0xe7ffffff irq 12 at device 2.0 on pci0
agp0: detected 892k stolen memory
agp0: aperture size is 128M
pcib1: <Intel 82801BA/BAM (ICH2) Hub to PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
fxp0: <Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0x9000-0x903f mem 
0xe8400000-0xe84fffff,0xe8741000-0xe8741fff irq 12 at device 0.0 on pci1
fxp0: Ethernet address 00:90:27:4d:87:2d
inphy0: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
inphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
twe0: <3ware Storage Controller> port 0x9400-0x940f irq 15 at device 1.0 on 
pci1
twe0: 4 ports, Firmware FE6X 1.02.28.053, BIOS BE6X 1.07.02.005
em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 1.7.19> port 
0x9800-0x983f mem 0xe8700000-0xe871ffff,0xe8720000-0xe873ffff irq 10 at 
device 3.0 on pci1
em0:  Speed:N/A  Duplex:N/A
fxp1: <Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0x9c00-0x9c3f mem 
0xe8600000-0xe86fffff,0xe8740000-0xe8740fff irq 11 at device 5.0 on pci1

         ---Mike 



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