em0 Intel Gigabit card, rc.conf processing on boot

[Tom Parquette]

Michael Clark wrote:
> 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)
> 
> 
> Michael Clark
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Your question is almost exactly the one I posted on current at .
The difference is, I'm using a 3Com 3C996B-T.
Question for you: When the card announces that it is active, do you get 
a kernel message along the lines of em0 Gigabit interface active? 
That's what mine does (obviously mine is a bge0 not an em0.  :-)

The one response I got on current@ indicated he had some Netgear cards 
running without a problem.

<ponder mode>
I'm not sure where I'm going with this information except to think there 
may be something about gigabit cards that FBSD may not [completely?] 
account for.
</ponder mode>
Cheers...