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    Pdsbm-ln2 1U server Lan Ports fail in RC canidate. Using Intel 82573 nic

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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      Ah, OK. So in the first boot you have disabled both on-board Intel NICs in the BIOS. The second log you don't have additional dual NIC in place.

      Neither of those two NIC types are able to dump their ROM? It's probably not the cause of your problem though even if the NICs do turn out to have a bad ROM.

      Steve

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        Topper727
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        Yes you got it.  When dual nic show it is the card with onboard off.  the same driver cause just an older chip that runs that pci card for dual ports.  just  a few versions newer the onboard 2 built in is one that fails and causes any PCI card to fail if those are enabled.. The dump I have not done on local machine yet only through ssh.  I will hook back up the monitor and keyboard to do this.  I only had 1 key keyboard so I use it for main machine and move there only when need.  So Monday if not sooner I will try this when I have more time.

        Dell 2950 g3 server
        Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5430 @ 2.66GHz
        Current: 2000 MHz, Max: 2667 MHz
        8 CPUs: 2 package(s) x 4 core(s)
        8152 MiB and 600meg 10k drive
        Pfsense 2.4 .. Hoping to get the phpvirtualbox going again.

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          Topper727
          last edited by

          Ok here is my dump.. If right at the machine itself in my case USB keyboard and VGA monitor I can get the dump.. But since not able to copy paste like you with the Serial port setup.  Please see picture

          This is with both built on Lan turned on but only one works

          The value is set correctly at least on port that is working .. I can not get status of other one.. But I can make either one work but only one at time.

          Value DF I think it said. which bit 1 is set correctly.. AM I right?

          ![2014-12-30 23.12.15.jpg](/public/imported_attachments/1/2014-12-30 23.12.15.jpg)
          ![2014-12-30 23.12.15.jpg_thumb](/public/imported_attachments/1/2014-12-30 23.12.15.jpg_thumb)

          Dell 2950 g3 server
          Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5430 @ 2.66GHz
          Current: 2000 MHz, Max: 2667 MHz
          8 CPUs: 2 package(s) x 4 core(s)
          8152 MiB and 600meg 10k drive
          Pfsense 2.4 .. Hoping to get the phpvirtualbox going again.

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            Indeed that looks like the correct, so it's not that.  :( But at least that's one thing eliminated.  :)

            Really hard to know what the exact cause of this is at this point. I would have to guess that it's some ACPI interaction that was introduced by the upgrade from FreeBSD 8.3 to 10.1. Assuming that I would try using the various ACPI debug options decsribed here: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpi&sektion=4
            That is likely to be a long and tedious process that may not in the end actually produce any useful results.  :-\

            Steve

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              Topper727
              last edited by

              I wish some how some way it would start working.

              Dell 2950 g3 server
              Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5430 @ 2.66GHz
              Current: 2000 MHz, Max: 2667 MHz
              8 CPUs: 2 package(s) x 4 core(s)
              8152 MiB and 600meg 10k drive
              Pfsense 2.4 .. Hoping to get the phpvirtualbox going again.

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by

                This is not a specific pfSense problem. You may have more luck asking for help on the FreeBSD forums. Perhaps someone there has worked around this issue before.

                Steve

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                  Topper727
                  last edited by

                  Yes, I found it was since I tried freebsd 10.1 but I did post in forum and nothing back yet.. seems they not as active as pfsense is.. glad you are.  I wish I knew way to resinstall drivers

                  Dell 2950 g3 server
                  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5430 @ 2.66GHz
                  Current: 2000 MHz, Max: 2667 MHz
                  8 CPUs: 2 package(s) x 4 core(s)
                  8152 MiB and 600meg 10k drive
                  Pfsense 2.4 .. Hoping to get the phpvirtualbox going again.

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                    Topper727
                    last edited by

                    https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=269196

                    This is where they updated the EM driver .. talks about shared code in the update.. Also submitted a bug

                    https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196501

                    Now the question is.  If they fix it in freebsd10.1 will it get into Pfsense and how fast?

                    Is there a way to downgrade to the driver used in 8.1 till they fix maybe?

                    I got the older driver but MAKE and PKG_Add are not part of pfense.. PKG_add use to be.. really starting to hate PFSENSE

                    http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Add_Packages_HOWTO_Add_Packages_from_a_shell

                    Dell 2950 g3 server
                    Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5430 @ 2.66GHz
                    Current: 2000 MHz, Max: 2667 MHz
                    8 CPUs: 2 package(s) x 4 core(s)
                    8152 MiB and 600meg 10k drive
                    Pfsense 2.4 .. Hoping to get the phpvirtualbox going again.

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                      last edited by

                      Drivers are not FreeBSD packages that you can add.
                      There are no build tools at all in pfSense, including them would only be a security risk.
                      FreeBSD 10 moved to the pkgng package system.
                      The driver subsystems changed a lot between 8.3 and 10.1, i'd be surprised if you're able to compile an 8.3 driver against 10.1 source.
                      It's my belief that it's not the driver anyway but some resource management component.

                      You might try to find exactly which FreeBSD version introduced the issue. Looking at the other bug reports we've referenced in this thread it may have been 9.0 or 9.1.

                      Steve

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                        Topper727
                        last edited by

                        Solved!

                        hint.agp.0.disabled=1
                        in loader.conf fixes the problem. :)

                        Dell 2950 g3 server
                        Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5430 @ 2.66GHz
                        Current: 2000 MHz, Max: 2667 MHz
                        8 CPUs: 2 package(s) x 4 core(s)
                        8152 MiB and 600meg 10k drive
                        Pfsense 2.4 .. Hoping to get the phpvirtualbox going again.

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          Huh, how did you find that? Well done.  :)

                          Steve

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                            Topper727
                            last edited by

                            I found by submitting a bug to Intel and someone gave me that to try.. that fixed it.

                            https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196501

                            Dell 2950 g3 server
                            Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5430 @ 2.66GHz
                            Current: 2000 MHz, Max: 2667 MHz
                            8 CPUs: 2 package(s) x 4 core(s)
                            8152 MiB and 600meg 10k drive
                            Pfsense 2.4 .. Hoping to get the phpvirtualbox going again.

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                            • stephenw10S
                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                              last edited by

                              Ah. Importantly that person was John Baldwin. I'm not going to feel bad not knowing something he does.  ;)
                              Anyway I'm happy a workaround exists and that key FreeBSD people are aware of it.

                              Steve

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                                Guest
                                last edited by

                                Interestingly, this isn't a em driver bug (as upthread wanted to pursue), but rather a PCI bus issue.

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