Glad u got sorted Thanks for posting that solution as it would help someonelse sometime in the future
On Friday, 25 September 2020, Brandon Woodford <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020, at 1:39 PM, Brandon Woodford wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've been trying to fix an issue with my Intel I350-T4 PCI Network card > not being reported to the OpenBSD 6.7 system during boot. Looking through > dmesg, I was not able to find any reference to the card or the em interface > name that it should have. I've also tried updating all firmware with > fw_update. After that I tried creating a /etc/hostname.em1 file that just > has dhcp included in it and ran sh /etc/netstart. Unfortunately, no luck as > of yet. I was able to find the boot_config(8) man page that describes a > similar issue with the ne(4) driver. I went into the boot configuration and > ran: find em and received a response of: em* at pci* dev -1 function -1 > flags 0x0. Not sure if that means anything. > > > > Quick note: the card does work on a separate system that is not OpenBSD > but FreeBSD. > > > > Any help in the right direction is appreciated! > > > > Thanks. > > Update: I was able to solve this issue. I was using a PCIe 2 card in a > PCIe 3 slot. My motherboard had an option to correct the slot to a previous > generation of PCIe (for w/e reason it was called Gen1 in the BIOS). I had > seen this option previously but kept it on auto. All link lights were > working for the card during this time so I figured it was an OS issue. > Turns out I was dead wrong... Changing the setting has fixed all the > issues, so now the em firmware is loaded during boot. > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.
