Hi list, we bought two Dell R610 Servers with four built-in Broadcom BCM5709 nics. Additionally we installed one Intel PRO/1000 QP quad port nic. There are no problems with the Broadcoms but something strange happens to the Intel nic.
Sometimes, almost always one to two ports of the intel card couldn't initialized. The OS comments this with the following message <snip> em1 at pci5 dev 0 function 1 "Intel PRO/1000 QP (82576)" rev 0x01: apic 1 int 14 (irq 10)em1: Hardware Initialization Failed em1: Unable to initialize the hardware <snap> We are runnig OpenBSD 4.7 stable and dmesg says: OpenBSD 4.7 (GENERIC) #558: Wed Mar 17 20:46:15 MDT 2010 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5506 @ 2.13GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2.13 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUS H,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,CX16, xTPR real mem = 3479244800 (3318MB) avail mem = 3383246848 (3226MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 04/06/10, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfa040, SMBIOS rev. 2.6 @ 0xcf79c000 (83 entries) bios0: vendor Dell Inc. version "2.0.13" date 04/06/2010 bios0: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R610 acpi0 at bios0: rev 2 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP APIC SPCR HPET DM__ MCFG WD__ SLIC ERST HEST BERT EINJ SRAT TCPA SSDT acpi0: wakeup devices PCI0(S5) acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 16 (boot processor) cpu0: unknown i686 model 0x1a, can't get bus clock (0x0) cpu0: apic clock running at 133MHz cpu at mainbus0: not configured cpu at mainbus0: not configured cpu at mainbus0: not configured ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 0 pa 0xfec00000, version 20, 24 pins ioapic1 at mainbus0: apid 1 pa 0xfec80000, version 20, 24 pins ioapic1: misconfigured as apic 0, remapped to apid 1 acpihpet0 at acpi0: 14318179 Hz acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 1 (PEX1) acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 2 (PEX3) acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus -1 (PEX4) acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus -1 (PEX5) acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus -1 (PEX6) acpiprt6 at acpi0: bus 4 (PEX7) acpiprt7 at acpi0: bus 8 (PEX9) acpiprt8 at acpi0: bus -1 (PEXA) acpiprt9 at acpi0: bus 3 (SBEX) acpiprt10 at acpi0: bus 9 (COMP) acpicpu0 at acpi0: C3, C1, PSS bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000 0xc8000/0x5c00 0xec000/0x4000! ipmi at mainbus0 not configured cpu0: EST: PSS not yet available for this processor pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 5500 Host" rev 0x13 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel X58 PCIE" rev 0x13 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 bnx0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5709" rev 0x20: apic 1 int 4 (irq 15) bnx1 at pci1 dev 0 function 1 "Broadcom BCM5709" rev 0x20: apic 1 int 16 (irq 14) ppb1 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "Intel X58 PCIE" rev 0x13 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 bnx2 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5709" rev 0x20: apic 1 int 0 (irq 15) bnx3 at pci2 dev 0 function 1 "Broadcom BCM5709" rev 0x20: apic 1 int 10 (irq 14) ppb2 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "Intel X58 PCIE" rev 0x13: apic 1 int 21 (irq 0) pci3 at ppb2 bus 4 ppb3 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "IDT 89HPES12N3A" rev 0x0e pci4 at ppb3 bus 5 ppb4 at pci4 dev 2 function 0 "IDT 89HPES12N3A" rev 0x0e pci5 at ppb4 bus 6 em0 at pci5 dev 0 function 0 "Intel PRO/1000 QP (82576)" rev 0x01: apic 1 int 15 (irq 11), address 00:1b:21:61:58:b0 em1 at pci5 dev 0 function 1 "Intel PRO/1000 QP (82576)" rev 0x01: apic 1 int 14 (irq 10)em1: Hardware Initialization Failedem1: Unable to initialize the hardware ppb5 at pci4 dev 4 function 0 "IDT 89HPES12N3A" rev 0x0e pci6 at ppb5 bus 7 em2 at pci6 dev 0 function 0 "Intel PRO/1000 QP (82576)" rev 0x01: apic 1 int 6 (irq 15), address 00:1b:21:61:58:b4 em3 at pci6 dev 0 function 1 "Intel PRO/1000 QP (82576)" rev 0x01: apic 1 int 13 (irq 14)em3: Hardware Initialization Failedem3: Unable to initialize the hardware ppb6 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 "Intel X58 PCIE" rev 0x13: apic 1 int 21 (irq 0) pci7 at ppb6 bus 8 "Intel X58 Misc" rev 0x13 at pci0 dev 20 function 0 not configured "Intel X58 GPIO" rev 0x13 at pci0 dev 20 function 1 not configured "Intel X58 RAS" rev 0x13 at pci0 dev 20 function 2 not configured uhci0 at pci0 dev 26 function 0 "Intel 82801I USB" rev 0x02: apic 0 int 17 (irq 14) uhci1 at pci0 dev 26 function 1 "Intel 82801I USB" rev 0x02: apic 0 int 18 (irq 11) ehci0 at pci0 dev 26 function 7 "Intel 82801I USB" rev 0x02: apic 0 int 19 (irq 10) usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 ppb7 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel 82801I PCIE" rev 0x02 pci8 at ppb7 bus 3 mpi0 at pci8 dev 0 function 0 "Symbios Logic SAS1068E" rev 0x08: apic 0 int 16 (irq 15) scsibus0 at mpi0: 112 targets sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <Dell, VIRTUAL DISK, 1028> SCSI3 0/direct fixed sd0: 237952MB, 512 bytes/sec, 487325696 sec total ses0 at scsibus0 targ 8 lun 0: <DP, BACKPLANE, 1.07> SCSI3 13/enclosure services fixed uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801I USB" rev 0x02: apic 0 int 21 (irq 6) uhci3 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801I USB" rev 0x02: apic 0 int 20 (irq 5) ehci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801I USB" rev 0x02: apic 0 int 21 (irq 6) usb1 at ehci1: USB revision 2.0 uhub1 at usb1 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 ppb8 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BA Hub-to-PCI" rev 0x92 pci9 at ppb8 bus 9 vga1 at pci9 dev 3 function 0 "Matrox MGA G200eW" rev 0x0a wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801IB LPC" rev 0x02: PM disabled pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82801I SATA" rev 0x02: DMA, channel 0 configured to native-PCI, channel 1 configured to native-PCI pciide0: using apic 0 int 23 (irq 14) for native-PCI interrupt atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0 scsibus1 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <TEAC, DVD-ROM DV-28SW, R.2A> ATAPI 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 usb2 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb3 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb4 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub4 at usb4 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb5 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0 uhub5 at usb5 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 isa0 at ichpcib0 isadma0 at isa0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support uhub6 at uhub0 port 3 "Standard Microsystems product 0x2514" rev 2.00/0.00 addr 2 uhub7 at uhub6 port 1 "Genesys Logic USB2.0 Hub" rev 2.00/7.02 addr 3 uhub8 at uhub7 port 4 "Cypress Semiconductor USB2 Hub" rev 2.00/0.08 addr 4 uhidev0 at uhub8 port 4 configuration 1 interface 0 "vendor 0x10d5 UKU-M02 1.7" rev 1.10/0.00 addr 5 uhidev0: iclass 3/1 ukbd0 at uhidev0: 8 modifier keys, 6 key codes wskbd0 at ukbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 uhidev1 at uhub8 port 4 configuration 1 interface 1 "vendor 0x10d5 UKU-M02 1.7" rev 1.10/0.00 addr 5 uhidev1: iclass 3/1, 3 report ids ums0 at uhidev1 reportid 1: 5 buttons, Z dir wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0 uhid0 at uhidev1 reportid 2: input=1, output=0, feature=0 uhid1 at uhidev1 reportid 3: input=2, output=0, feature=0 uhidev2 at uhub4 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 "Avocent USB Composite Device-0" rev 1.10/0.00 addr 2 uhidev2: iclass 3/1 ukbd1 at uhidev2: 8 modifier keys, 6 key codes wskbd1 at ukbd1 mux 1 wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0 uhidev3 at uhub4 port 2 configuration 1 interface 1 "Avocent USB Composite Device-0" rev 1.10/0.00 addr 2 uhidev3: iclass 3/1 ums1 at uhidev3 ums1: X report 0x0002 not supported vscsi0 at root scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b bnx0: address 00:22:19:6c:b5:21 brgphy0 at bnx0 phy 1: BCM5709 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 8 bnx1: address 00:22:19:6c:b5:23 brgphy1 at bnx1 phy 1: BCM5709 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 8 bnx2: address 00:22:19:6c:b5:25 brgphy2 at bnx2 phy 1: BCM5709 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 8 bnx3: address 00:22:19:6c:b5:27 brgphy3 at bnx3 phy 1: BCM5709 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 8 Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance! Joerg [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s]