I wanted to circulate a document from our technical marketing group that details a problem with the family of adapters called ES2LAN. These are most commonly seen as LOMs (on motherboard) in SuperMicro and other servers, the most common device ID is 0x1096 but also may be 0x1098, 0x10BA, or 0x10BB. They are a device driven by the 'em' driver. This document has some Windows symptoms that will be of no value here, but the problem does occur on FreeBSD, most often it is seen as a failure to load, due to a "Shared Code Initialization" failure. There is driver changes in 7.2 that address this problem, however the driver alone is only part of the complete solution, you MUST have firmware updates to resolve the problem, and this document provides pointers for particular systems. If you have a system that has seen this issue please obtain and apply the relevant firmware. I hope this helps resolve any of these issues customers are still seeing. Cheers everyone, Jack Vogel Intel Lan Access Division freebsd@intel.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ESB2_problems.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 29539 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20090612/21c541b5/ESB2_problems.pdf