7-STABLE not seeing second em interface on supermicro mb

John Pettitt jpp at cloudview.com
Fri Mar 28 17:59:11 PDT 2008


Volker wrote:
> On 12/23/-58 20:59, John Pettitt wrote:
>   
>> I just installed 7-STABLE on a new dual/quad machine based on a
>> supermicro motherboard - it works fine except that it's not seeing the
>> second network interface (em driver) - is there a magic incantation to
>> make this work?
>>
>>
>> FreeBSD echelon.localnet 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Fri Mar 21
>> 23:27:31 PDT 2008    
>> root at echelon.localnet:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/ECHELON  amd64
>>
>> The only word from the em driver is this
>>
>> em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.7.3> port
>> 0x3000-0x301f mem 0xde200000-0xde21ffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci5
>> em0: Using MSI interrupt
>> em0: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:64:d9:45
>> em0: [FILTER]
>>
>> ifconfig doesn't show anything other than em0 and lo0
>>
>> Where should I start debugging this ?
>>
>> John
>>     
>
> John,
>
> I'm not aware whether or not your question has been answered. If not,
> please send output of `pciconf -lv'.
>
> Volker
>
>   

It was a hardware problem - nothing that a new motherboard couldn't fix.

John



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