On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 02:50:45AM +0800, Mars G Miro wrote: > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Jack Vogel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, I am at Intel you know, and even we don't seem to have any systems > > with > > 82576 down in my group here. The way link works I can be about 99.9% sure > > in saying its not the driver. Its preproduction so there are lots of > > possibilities, > > and the biggest problem is its going to be difficult to help when I don't > > have any > > such hardware :( > > > > I've heard from the 1G product team that they have seen EEPROM mismatches > > on systems that will result in things not working in funny ways. > > > Jahh, I've seen those but not w/ Intel NICs. I believe it was from > Broadcom on some IBM x3455? (IIRC) and it was indeed quite amusing ;-) > > > > > > If you have a back to back connection to another NIC on Port 0, no switch, > > does > > it still autoneg to 100? > > > > I will have do that tomorrow as I am @home now ;-) > > btw, another data point, during sysinstall, we encountered: > > <unknown network interface type> on both the igbs. >
This is due to missing a missing device entry in the sysinstall code. Unfortunately there are entries missing for several new drivers, I will commit a patch to fix this soon. Anyway, it shouldn't be related to your problems. - Christian -- Christian Brueffer [email protected] [email protected] GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D
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