problems with em(4) since update to driver 7.2.2

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Thu Mar 31 15:53:08 UTC 2011


On 3/31/2011 11:20 AM, Olivier Smedts wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've got a problem under FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT amd64 with the em driver.
> It's loaded as a module. I was previously using r219710 (2011-03-17)
> without any problem, but with latest HEAD I can't even send a ping.
> Here's what appears in dmesg. I tried unloading / loading the module,
> did not help. At the end I loaded my old if_em.ko and it worked :

I ran into a similar problem with specific types of em NICs. For some
reason, if it was compiled into the kernel it worked. As a module doing
a netboot, it would fail.  Does it work for you if the driver is
statically compiled into the kernel by chance ?

	---Mike

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