7-STABLE not seeing second em interface on supermicro mb

Gavin Atkinson gavin.atkinson at ury.york.ac.uk
Mon Mar 24 04:05:32 PDT 2008


On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, John Pettitt wrote:

> I just installed 7-STABLE on a new dual/quad machine based on a supermicro 
> motherboard - it works fine except that it's not seeing the second network 
> interface (em driver) - is there a magic incantation to make this work?
>
> FreeBSD echelon.localnet 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Fri Mar 21 
> 23:27:31 PDT 2008 
> root at echelon.localnet:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/ECHELON  amd64
>
> The only word from the em driver is this
>
> em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.7.3> port 
> 0x3000-0x301f mem 0xde200000-0xde21ffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci5
> em0: Using MSI interrupt
> em0: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:64:d9:45
> em0: [FILTER]
>
> ifconfig doesn't show anything other than em0 and lo0

Can you give us the output from "dmesg" after a verbose boot, and also 
the output of "pciconf -l"?  Are the network interfaces on board, or on a 
separate card?

Gavin


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