em0 Intel Gigabit card, rc.conf processing on boot

[Kenneth Culver]

Quoting Michael Clark <MClark at Nemschoff.com>:

> Any suggestions on how to do this without DHCP?  That's really not
> an option for me.  Can I delay the rc.conf processing somehow
> so that the adaptor has more time to get online?
>

As far as I know there's no way to speed it up. That's just how long it takes
for auto-negotiation to finish.

Ken
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Culver [mailto:culverk at sweetdreamsracing.biz]
> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 3:39 PM
> To: Michael Clark
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: em0 Intel Gigabit card, rc.conf processing on boot
>
>
> 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
>
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