svn commit: r190872 - head/sys/dev/e1000

[Mike Silbersack]

On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Jack Vogel wrote:

> There is quite a bit of shared code changes to support alternate mac
> addressing, if
> you look at the diffs you'll notice in attach I inserted a reset, and then
> also moved
> where hardware init is called, this is because the shared code now requires
> RAR(0)
> to have a valid address in it when it does setup, reset causes that, but
> init_hardware
> will zero the RAR array out.
>
> I have no idea what your environment is, but it sounds like it may be
> related.
>
> If you have a driver that works, you could try taking the new if_em.* and
> drop
> them in, see if that solves it. But right now my guess is this issue is in
> the shared
> code and not the core.
>
> Let me know what you find,
>
> Jack

Ok, I will try to help narrow it down.  I saved a working kernel (from 4 
days ago), so I can reboot with that one when I need network connectivity.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack