Re: em(4) - memory access and bus master bits were not set

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Wilkinson, Alex
<alex.wilkinson_at_dsto.defence.gov.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using em(4) on a VMware ESX - FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE VM.
>
> My em0 interface will consistently go down when it is hit with a reasonable amount
> of I/O.  Upon bootstrap dmesg(8) reports:
>
>   "em0 memory access and or bus master bits were not set"
>
> I suspect this is the likely cause (bug) of my problem. This has been discussed
> and supposedly fixed:
>  [http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/net/2007-07/msg00262.html]
>
> I am enabling em(4) via the following *.vmx tweak as recomened by Ivan
> (http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/vmware.html):
>
>   ethernet0.virtualDev="e1000"
>
> I am having to revert back to the crusty lnc driver - le(4).
>
> Can anyone suggest how to make em(4) play ball in a -STABLE ESX VM ?
>
>  -aW

Strange -- em(4) works perfectly fine in VMware Fusion. What version
of ESX are you using?
-Garrett