freebsd stable - Sep 2012 - intel 82579 nic support?

Hello,

I'm playing with releng_9_1 on a neat intel server, pre-production.
Since ESXi5.0-768111 doesn't supprot the second on-board NIC/PHY of my
BearTooth board, I tied to pass through the device into my FreeBSD VM.
The NIC get's recogniced, but isn't usable because "Setup of Shared
code
failed".
According to the man page, 82597 isn't supported by em (or igb) at all,
but at least it tries to attach.
What's the current status of this by now widly spread PHY/NIC?

Thanks,

-Harry


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82579 is not a NIC, its a PHY, and it you look at the current code you will
see the support
is in there. So the real question is what the actual NIC is, how about a
pciconf -lv?

Next, how are you trying "to pass through the device into my FreeBSD
VM",
what is
the virtualization environment.

Widely spread, uh ya, but not virtualized, so tell me more about the
environment.

Jack

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Harald Schmalzbauer <
h.schmalzbauer@omnilan.de> wrote:
>  Hello,
>
> I'm playing with releng_9_1 on a neat intel server, pre-production.
> Since ESXi5.0-768111 doesn't supprot the second on-board NIC/PHY of my
> BearTooth board, I tied to pass through the device into my FreeBSD VM.
> The NIC get's recogniced, but isn't usable because "Setup of
Shared code
> failed".
> According to the man page, 82597 isn't supported by em (or igb) at all,
> but at least it tries to attach.
> What's the current status of this by now widly spread PHY/NIC?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Harry
>
>
>