On 2008-11-09, Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please advise how I can wake up my MCP55 on board network interface. > During installation of AMD64 OpenBSD 4.4 or i386 OpenBSD 4.3 the > network interface does not respond: "no link...sleeping". > The ethernet card is on board NVIDIA MCP55. > After reboot, I tried to manually configure the card, but I get same > response. > I am very new to OpenBSD.
assuming you have ruled out the common causes (bad network cable, etc), it seems like it could be a problem with incorrectly detecting the routing of interrupts on your motherboard. this can be a bit of a problem on some NVIDIA based machines still. a couple of things to try: at the boot loader, "boot -c" and then at the UKC> prompt, "disable acpi" and "quit", and see if things are any better. this may make some devices stop working and others start working, or it may just fix things, or it may not help at all. you can save this change to a kernel on disk with config(8). if you're using the "bsd" kernel, try "bsd.mp" and vice-versa, see if there's a difference. if you can, try and get dmesg and acpidump output from the machine (USB drive, network if you can get it working, floppy, serial console, ...) (dmesg inline in email, acpidump is pretty long and is probably better put on a webserver and send the URL).
