10.0-BETA3 em/nfe drivers on MSI K9NBPM2-FID board. LAN card changes.

[Joe Holden]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-net at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> net at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Florent Peterschmitt
> Sent: 10 November 2013 01:46
> To: freebsd-net at freebsd.org; freebsd-stable stable
> Subject: 10.0-BETA3 em/nfe drivers on MSI K9NBPM2-FID board. LAN card
> changes.
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a server at Hetzner and something strange happend.
>
> First, I installed FreeBSD 10.0-BETA3 (amd64) via their FreeBSD
9.2-RELEASE
> rescue system, that's ok.
>
> I had to configure the network by using the em driver -> em0 interface.
>
> But suddenly, the network was lost.
>
> After an ACPI reboot, nothing. Going to the vKVM show me the system
> didn't detected em0 anymore but an nVidia (nfe driver) card!
>
vKVM uses qemu emulation so it doesn't match the real hardware.

> Here is the hardware:
>
> http://www.msi.com/product/mb/K9NBPM2-FID.html#/?div=Detail
>
> Here is a partial dmesg:
>
> nfe0: <NVIDIA nForce 430 MCP13 Networking Adapter> port 0xd080-0xd087
> mem 0xfebdb000-0xfebdbfff irq 20 at device 20.0 on pci0
>
> ### something interesting ###
>
> ciphy0: <Vitesse VSC8601 10/100/1000TX PHY> PHY 1 on miibus0
>
>
> Some /var/log/messages related to NICs: bootlog_nfe_em.txt Full dmesg of
> the currently booted system: dmesg.txt
>
> Does FreeBSD "confused" the "Vitesse" card and the nVidia one?
>
No because the MCP isn't the same as the PHY it may be connected to.

Just change rc.conf to nfe and it'll probably work.

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