7-STABLE not seeing second em interface on supermicro mb

John Pettitt jpp at cloudview.com
Mon Mar 24 15:03:40 PDT 2008


Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> 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
>
Doh!

Turns out to be a hardware problem - when checking the jumpers I 
discovered a transistor on the MB next to the failed nic that is too hot 
to touch - new MB is on the way from Silicon Mechanics (who by the way 
are great to deal with)

With hardware today I see so few dead components that I stopped checking 
the obvious first.

John



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