Intel(R) PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Server Adapter not working properly

[Irjohn Junus]

Thanks Herbert. I bought another Intel CT to test and it work flawlessly,
so it was a bad PT adapter.

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Herbert J. Skuhra <hskuhra at fastmail.fm>wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 14:39:01 +0800
> Irjohn Junus <i.junus at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > This was originally posted here:
> > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=168854&posted=1#post168854
> >
> > I'm building a new PF firewall box based on FreeBSD 9 Release.
> Motherboard
> > is Foxconn H61S Mini-ITX with Intel PRO/1000 PT dual port server adapter.
> >
> > The adapter is recognized as em0 and em1 but em0 just won't work (i.e no
> > light on the port when connected to the switch) and em1 works only in
> > 100baseTX full-duplex mode (no carrier if I force it to 1000baseT). I
> tried
> > to change switch port, UTP cable from Cat5e to Cat6 but still no luck.
> The
> > onboard Realtek works fine. Switch is Netgear GS608. Could it be a bad
> > Intel card?
> >
> > I also tried to compile the latest driver from Intel but it gives error
> > during compilation:
> > http://downloadcenter.intel.com/conf...&Dwnldid=17509<
> http://downloadcenter.intel.com/confirm.aspx?httpDown=http://downloadmirror.intel.com/17509/eng/em-7.2.4.tar.gz&lang=eng&Dwnldid=17509
> >
> >
> > Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
> >
> > ps: command captures are provided at the url above.
>
> Maybe you should test with 8.3-BETA1. The recent em1000 drivers (7.3.0?)
> were mfc'ed to stable/8 January 31st but not to stable/9.
>
> See:
>
> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.net/34946>
> <http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=230848>
>
> --
> Herbert
>