[Fwd: em0 disappeared]

[Uwe Grohnwaldt]

Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Uwe Grohnwaldt <uwe at grohnwaldt.eu> wrote:
>   
>> there is nothing mentioned about the network-interface neither in dmesg nor
>> in pciconf.
>> in my kernelconfig there are the entries:
>> device em
>> device igb
>> device ixgb
>>
>> with the old kernel everything works.
>>
>>     
>
> i actually had somewhat similar problem only with onboard bge nics on
> older tyan motherboards. when i upgraded from 7.x to current (amd64
> arch) both onboard bge nics disappeared. i had to go to the bios
> screen and set "installed os" (or something like that) to "linux".
> other choices were "windows" and "other" (default).
>
> thanks,
> max
>   
The problem is: it is a rented Strato-Server. So I have no access to the 
bios.

The box is used to be a new Tinderbox for miwi so he needs a running 
fbsd-current. we would realy appreciate a fix and will test it, of course.

chers,
Uwe