Polling and em0

Jiawei Ye leafy7382 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 16 20:04:07 PDT 2006


On 9/17/06, Bill Blue <bblue at netoldies.com> wrote:
> polling(4) says that supported devices include em(4) and that polling support is turned on and off with ifconfig's 'polling' option.  But ifconfig doesn't seem to recognize that option either as a standalone request or with the initial em0 setup at boot.
>
> This is after a source cvsup (releng=6 for the frozen for 6.2 sources) yesterday and buildworld + buildkernel.  em support is compiled in the kernel rather than loaded.  Mobo is a Supermicro P4SCT-0 with Intel 875 chipset.
>
> Is this a known issue that I haven't found references to, or perhaps something related to my specific configuration?

You need polling support in the kernel, you can look at NOTES for
POLLING option.

Cheers,

Jiawei Ye
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