Intel embedded NICs not working with FreeBSD 6.2, 6.3 and 7.0

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 08:22:56PM +0200, Fuchs, Martin wrote:
 > Hi !
 > 
 >  
 > 
 > I am in contact with Chris Buechler because of pfSense and we he told me
 > to contact Jack Vogel because of some Intel NIC driver problem.
 > 
 >  
 > 
 > FreeBSD detects them as fxp cards which is correct, but they do not work
 > at all, i tried in ACPI and non-ACPI mode and with enabled ROM and
 > disabled ROM and everything, but I cannot get them working...
 > 
 > I always get "fxp0 timeout" or fxpX fort he corresponding card... I read
 > it might have something to do with dynamic powersaving mode or else but
 > have no clue how to deactivate, there's no option in the ROM for this.
 > 
 >  
 > 
 > It's an appliance board (NexCom EBC575) with Intel 845GV / Intel 82801DB
 > (ICH4)-chipset and 2 x Intel 82551QM (PRO/100 Network Connection), 1 x
 > ICH4 integrated LAN Int on board.
 > 
 >  
 > 
 > Is there anything I can tot o make it work for now or is it a known
 > problem or else ?
 > 

Since there are too many variants of fxp hardwares it would be
even better to post the output of the following.
 o pciconf -lcv
 o dmesg output related with fxp(4)
 o devinfo -rv | grep oui
 o vmstat -i

 >  
 > 
 > Regards,
 > 
 >  
 > 
 > looking forward to hear from you,
 > 
 >  
 > 
 > Martin

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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon