Hi All,
I have a server I'm building up for production within a small company,
and I'm using this particular board. Initially I had trouble with the
onboard PATA controller now being recognised, so I got around that with
an external USB CD-ROM for installing. My problem is actually concerned
with the onboard Intel EtherExpress Pro 1000. I can't make it connect
at 1000baseTX at all, although the 100baseTX works fine, as long as I
let it autodetect. If I manually configure the 100baseTX using
ifconfig, I get a lot of errors on the interface and I'm not sure of the
exact cause.
Currenly installed is the following version of FreeBSD with a custom kernel
# uname -a
FreeBSD mail.biocentral-labs.com 6.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3
#2: Wed Oct 11 19:14:10 CST 2006
Kernel mods are
include GENERIC
ident BIOCENTRAL
device smbus # added for smbus hardware monitoring
device iicsmb
device iicbus
device iicbb
device iic
options MROUTING # Multicast routing
options IPFIREWALL #firewall
options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE #enable logging to syslogd(8)
options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD #enable transparent proxy support
options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=100 #limit verbosity
options IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT #allow everything by default
options IPDIVERT #divert sockets
options IPFILTER #ipfilter support
options IPFILTER_LOG #ipfilter logging
options IPSTEALTH #support for stealth forwarding
options TCPDEBUG
options DUMMYNET
# reboot if kernel panics
options KDB_UNATTENDED
options PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME=16
Currently I'm getting around the problem by using a pci card (Intel
Etherexpress BT I think, would have to open the case to check for sure.
This is the dmesg output for the onboard ethernet
em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.2.9> port
0x30c0-0x30df mem 0x50300000-0x5031ffff,0x50324000-0x50324fff irq 20 at
device 25.0 on pci0
and this is the dmesg output from the card
em1: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.2.9> port
0x1000-0x103f mem 0x50020000-0x5003ffff,0x50000000-0x5001ffff irq 22 at
device 1.0 on pci6
Is anyone else using this model mainboard and have a workaround for the
ethernet connection speed problem?
Regards
Tim
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Tim Aslat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Spyderweb Consulting
http://www.spyderweb.com.au
Mobile: +61 0401088479
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