Bingo!  I figured out that it was a problem with the checksum offloading
shortly after my original email but I had NO clue how to fix it.

Everything is working now and I hope I NEVER have to open these 1U cases
again.  Jamming the SATA connectors back in after they're covered by the NIC
makes me cry.  ;)

On 9/17/07, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 2007/09/17 11:09, slug bait wrote:
> > I am currently having problems with my new OpenBSD-4.1 firewall.  I have
> > installed a PCI-X 4-port Intel Gigabit Ethernet card, but something
> appears
> > to be broken.  The 4 interfaces are detected as em0-3 while the two
> on-board
> > GB NICs are bge0 and bge1.
>
> Find a spare jumper, open the box up, remove the NIC (yeah, I know.
> you're going to love me when you have to put it back if it's in a 1U
> case...)
> to access JPXA1 (between the heatsink-covered HT-1000 and the ATI GPU),
> put the jumper on 1-2 becuase it's broken at 133MHz (gotta love that
> checksum offloading)...
>
> While you're there, you may also want to move JPL1 to disable the
> BCM5704C bge(4) unless you really need them (next to the slot for the
> IPMI riser).
>
> If the box is somewhere with inconvenient access you may also want to
> put a jumper on JP2 (front, near the fan header) to force power on
> (the BIOS options about this are ... somewhat lacking)
>
> > bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 03/26/07, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf0010,
>
> lucky you - mine won't POST with that version unless CMOS is clear
> first (every boot), yum...
>
> I still *mostly* prefer them to X2100 though...

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