bge0 interface seen but not working

[YongHyeon PYUN]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 08:55:51AM -0800, Bill Norton wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I posted this on the pc-bsd forum and was directed here.?
> 
> I installed the latest 8.X and the interface worked fine.?
> 
> Yesterday, I did a clean install of 9.0.?
> 
> The issue is that the bge0 interface is not working.?
> It is seen by the kernel(ifconfig shows it) but just won't ping.
> I have tried dhcp and a static address.?
> I used a backtrack live cd and this worked fine.?
> 

Probably disabling MSI will workaround your issue. Add

hw.pci.enable_msi="0"

to /boot/loader.conf.

> 
> I did find this bug below but it seemed to only affect 8.2
> 
> The bge(4) Ethernet driver has a known issue where the interface is seen but does not respond to networking requests. A patch is available for 8.2 (see 155442) and the driver will be fixed in 8.3.
> 
> Any ideas??
> 

I thought it was already fixed by John but it seems it is not.
John, would you take a look?(NVIDIA HT MSI issue)?