em0 Intel Gigabit card, rc.conf processing on boot

[Kenneth Culver]

Quoting Michael Clark <MClark at Nemschoff.com>:

> I have 2 fxp Intel 100mb cards in this machine that work fine.  I have ran
> it with 3 fxp
> cards in the past.  I added an em0, Intel gigabit this morning.  The card
> displays a
> non active status during the boot process.  RC.conf is processed and the
> card
> does not get an ip address, while the fxp cards do.  Later in the boot
> process
> in bright white letters it shows the card status has changed to active.  I
> believe my
> problems getting rc.conf to assign the IP address are related to this.  Any
> suggestions
> would be appreciated.
>
> 5.2-p2 (feb)
>
I have also noticed that this card takes a while to become active... but I've
been able to get an IP using dhcp anyway... it just takes a bit longer 
than for
the 100Mbit/sec cards.

Ken