nfe internet problems

[Chuck Robey]

Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
  > OK, I just finished getting a verbose boot.  Wouldn't you know it?  The
>  > nfe ports aren't even recognized now.  I have them static in the kernel 
>  > (so they don't need kldloading) but I can offer you no probing info.  I 
>  > can find the nfe by using kldstat -v, so it's in the kernel (and i 
>  > checked, an attempt to load it anyhow fails).  I haven't any idea why it 
>  > would not be probed, it's on the motherboard (an Asus Striker Extreme) 
> 
> If nfe(4) was loaded successfully and identified ethernet controller
> it should have printed some information for the device.(You can check 
> it before invoking ifconfig(8)). If it's not detected by nfe(4) I
> guess nfe(4) is not guilty for the issue.
> It would be even better if you can post the output of "pciconf -lcv".
> 
>  > and needs only to have the bios agree to allow it, which it was.  Hmm, I 
>  > think I will reboot and check the bios again anyhow.  Won't hurt 
>  > anything, I guess.
>  > 
> 
> Your BIOS may have a ASF option for ethernet. Try toggling the option.
> 

OK, like I said to begin with (look above) the nfe0/1 didn't probe. 
I've done more investigation, and believe it or not, the nfe0/1 doesn't 
print any probe message when I was in verbose booting mode.  I rebooted 
4 times, and did check the BIOS, the ports were definitely active. 
What's more puzzling is that, when I gave up trying to get a verbose 
boot with the nfe0/1 in there, and booted non-verbosely, it probed 
immediately, and here's what printed (I have excerpted the nfe section):

nfe0: <NVIDIA nForce MCP55 Networking Adapter> port 0xfb00-0xfb07 mem 
0xefffd000-0xefffdfff,0xefffc000-0xefffc0ff,0xefff
b000-0xefffb00f irq 20 at device 17.0 on pci0
miibus1: <MII bus> on nfe0
e1000phy0: <Marvell 88E1116 Gigabit PHY> PHY 19 on miibus1
e1000phy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 
1000baseTX-FDX, auto
nfe0: Ethernet address: 00:1b:fc:a0:90:4c
nfe0: [FILTER]
nfe0: [FILTER]
nfe0: [FILTER]
nfe0: [FILTER]
nfe0: [FILTER]
nfe0: [FILTER]
nfe0: [FILTER]
nfe0: [FILTER]
nfe1: <NVIDIA nForce MCP55 Networking Adapter> port 0xfa00-0xfa07 mem 
0xefffa000-0xefffafff,0xefff9000-0xefff90ff,0xefff
8000-0xefff800f irq 21 at device 18.0 on pci0
miibus2: <MII bus> on nfe1
e1000phy1: <Marvell 88E1116 Gigabit PHY> PHY 19 on miibus2
e1000phy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 
1000baseTX-FDX, auto
nfe1: Ethernet address: 00:1b:fc:a0:97:89
nfe1: [FILTER]
nfe1: [FILTER]
nfe1: [FILTER]
nfe1: [FILTER]
nfe1: [FILTER]
nfe1: [FILTER]
nfe1: [FILTER]
nfe1: [FILTER]

pciconf -l -cv yielded:

nfe0 at pci0:0:17:0:       class=0x068000 card=0xcb841043 chip=0x037310de 
rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00
     vendor     = 'Nvidia Corp'
     device     = 'MCP55 Ethernet'
     class      = bridge
     cap 01[44] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D1 D2 D3  current D0
     cap 11[70] = MSI-X supports 8 messages in maps 0x18 and 0x1c enabled
     cap 05[50] = MSI supports 8 messages, 64 bit, vector masks
     cap 08[6c] = HT MSI fixed address window enabled at 0xfee00000
nfe1 at pci0:0:18:0:       class=0x068000 card=0xcb841043 chip=0x037310de 
rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00
     vendor     = 'Nvidia Corp'
     device     = 'MCP55 Ethernet'
     class      = bridge
     cap 01[44] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D1 D2 D3  current D0
     cap 11[70] = MSI-X supports 8 messages in maps 0x18 and 0x1c enabled
     cap 05[50] = MSI supports 8 messages, 64 bit, vector masks
     cap 08[6c] = HT MSI fixed address window enabled at 0xfee00000

I have one other odd problem, it's that no probe messages whatever print 
during booting, so I had to pick up the demsg later on.  The last thing 
I see during booting is the first spinner character, usually "|", and 
the next thing I see is "Login;", nothing inbetween whatever.   Any idea 
why my booting has gone totally silent on me?