On May 10, 2007, at 5:54 AM, Darren Reed wrote:
[...]
But if if_em is probing, it suggests a VMware
change rather than a FreeBSD change, which you may be able to
revert by
telling it to expose a Lance-style device as opposed to an Intel
device.
There's no way to choose the type of card vmware emulates.
I always set my VMWare to expose an intel e1000 card, which gets
probed correctly by almost all systems, even Windows with the Intel
drivers installed. In your .vmx file you should find a line like this:
ethernet0.virtualDev="e1000"
If VMWare is to give an em device, if you remove that line it should
default back to lnc driver.
That being said, I have had no performance problems with the em
driver on FreeBSD 6.0 in VMWare, and have not had the timeout
problems you mentioned.
Darren
Bert JW Regeer
