Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

2008-08-14 Thread Markus Vervier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jack Vogel wrote: | I have reproduced the problem, you are correct. Thank you for | persisting thru my doubts :) Always persisting to help improving FreeBSD. Another odd thing I noticed today: When dual-booting Windows on the same machine and doin

Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

2008-08-13 Thread Markus Vervier
Jack Vogel wrote: I didn't mean the NIC EEPROM, but the system BIOS, make sure you are running the version that Jeremy said he was, if that matches you might go look at settings in the BIOS that are about management. I'm now running the latest BIOS for my X60 version 2.22 with the same resu

Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

2008-08-11 Thread Markus Vervier
Jack Vogel wrote: Seems possibly a BIOS thing, if not that bad cable, bad link partner maybe?? I had the problem with all sorts of switches / cables. How can I dump my EEPROM settings if that helps? -- Markus ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

2008-08-08 Thread Markus Vervier
Mike Tancsa schrieb: If you manually type, dhclient em0 No, even if I type ifconfig em0 down && ifconfig em0 up it won´t work. The interface just gets no link until I reload the driver with a cable plugged. -- Markus ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org m

Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

2008-08-08 Thread Markus Vervier
Jack Vogel schrieb: "me too" 's are of little help. Please elaborate on your "exact same", since each person's perception will be slightly different. Hi Jack, maybe read it like: Thinkpad X60 1706GMG affected too, so the problem is not specific to Martins machine. I can write the same s

em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

2008-08-08 Thread Markus Vervier
Hi, I just stumbled upon this thread. I experience the exact same behaviour as Martin on my Thinkpad X60: Thinkpad X60 Model: 1706GMG BIOS-Version 2.15 (7BETD4WW) FreeBSD 7.0 STABLE amd64 (from about two weeks ago) - same situtation on 7.0-RELEASE i386 -- Markus ___