Intel Ethernet card not being detected

Wayne Pascoe freebsd-feb at penguinpowered.org
Wed Jun 2 00:49:28 PDT 2004


On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 11:36:40PM -0600, flowers wrote:
> From: Wayne Pascoe
> > I've tried installing 5.2.1 on the machine and it still doesn't work.
> > Now though, it's even worse, as the em0 device doesn't work either.
> >
> > I get something along these lines:
> > em0: Link is up 10Mbps Half Duplex
> > em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
> > em0: Link is up 10Mbps Half Duplex
> > em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
> 
> I would check your cabling.  I recently had a similar problem that was
> caused by a lousy connection.

Nope, same cable, different card, worked fine. Also, the problem went
away after a recompile of the kernel. Very weird.

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