Em dirver v6.0.5

Ponl · Jul 30, 2006, 2:33 PM

I run PFsense HEAD for testing purpose.
I just added a "Intel PRO/1000 PT Desktop Adapter" to that testing machine.
A few weeks ago I tested the em driver on FreeBSD on that card and it works fine.
I was excited to see it being added to pfsense so I updated pfsense to HEAD.
Anyway my card doesnt get detected, is there something I need to do? like load the driver or anything ?
Oh and btw maybe it is normal but the if_em.ko is not available in /boot/kernel. Or is the driver just build into the monolithic kernel ?

What can I do to get it to work? or is it just a bug ?

Thanks
Ponl

hoba · Jul 30, 2006, 3:41 PM

Patience, it will be available soon and show up in a pfSense near you ;)

Ponl · Jul 30, 2006, 3:58 PM

sorry, I didn't know it took time till it syncs.
Thanks for the quick reply ;)

Ponl

billm · Jul 30, 2006, 5:06 PM

@Ponl:

sorry, I didn't know it took time till it syncs.
Thanks for the quick reply ;)

Ponl

This driver hasn't yet been brought into FreeBSD. However, I brought it into our tree per the bounty http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,1726.msg9987.html#msg9987 on it (but haven't yet heard back from the requestor if he can test it - let alone if the bounty is valid). Before this can reach RELENG_1 it needs to be tested, we're planning on testing that it hasn't broken anything on our hardware. However, we'll need someone to test a snapshot release and confirm it fixes the issue on this hardware. Will you be able to do that if we provide an image?

–Bill

Ponl · Jul 30, 2006, 5:49 PM

This driver hasn't yet been brought into FreeBSD.

Actualy this driver v6.0.5 is already in FreeBSD; although only in current.

Yes, if you give me instructions on how to test it and where I can get it I will.

Regards
Ponl

billm · Jul 30, 2006, 6:24 PM

@Ponl:

This driver hasn't yet been brought into FreeBSD.

Actualy this driver v6.0.5 is already in FreeBSD; although only in current.

Yes, if you give me instructions on how to test it and where I can get it I will.

Regards
Ponl

NO, actually, it's not.

char em_driver_version[] = "Version - 5.1.5";

That's in sys/dev/em/if_em.c,v 1.122. Your card may work in FreeBSD-7, but that driver is NOT Intel version 6.0.5. We'll have a test version with the new intel driver after RC2 goes out the door. Thanks

–Bill

Ponl · Jul 31, 2006, 3:06 PM

Thanks for pointing that out to me Bill, Let me know when you got that snapshot ready ;)
EDIT : I tested the snapshot and the driver seems to work good !
Regards
Ponl