On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Brian McCann <bjmcc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Brian McCann <bjmcc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> This isn't a Dell PoweEdge, but at least this is two platforms it's >> happening on now. Strangely, my VMWare virtual machines that use the >> em driver do not have this problem. >> >> TSO is disabled. >> >> I just tried adding "up" to the $ifconfig_emX lines in rc.conf, and it >> didn't help. >> >> What I discovered (and I'm still playing with a bit), is that it has >> to do with checksum offloading. If you run "ifconfig emX -rxcsum", >> the interface comes back to life. I just added "-rxcsum" to the >> $ifconfig_emX lines in rc.conf, and I can run "/etc/rc.d/netif >> restart" now, and the NIC continues to work fine. >> >> I tried emailing the folks @ Intel that are mentioned in the man page >> for the em driver, but the mail bounced... >> >> --Brian >> >> -- > > Brian (and everyone else reading the thread), > > I just found this...the patch was submitted some time ago, but somehow > didn't make it into 8.1. > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=141843 . I'm trying it > now. I'll keep you posted. > > --Brian >
So, the patch didn't work against 8.1-RELEASE...it wouldn't compile since there were some new files in the driver package. So, I checked out the e1000 driver from HEAD and put it in my src tree (in addition to some supporting files that were necessary), and compiled that. I went through the SVN notes for the e1000 files, found the SVN version number, and updated all the files listed in the commit. Here's the link: http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=209616 . Once I installed the new kernel module, all was well...no more problems. Hopefully this will be included in 8.2-RELEASE. Thanks, and good luck to all! --Brian -- _-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_ Brian McCann "I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I've got hundreds of people waiting to abuse me." -- Bill Murray, "Ghostbusters" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
