Re: ASUS Z97I-PLUS MB Intel Ethernet NIC not Detected

I have a patch for this, will post it once I get home tonight.  I talked with intel earlier this week, they promised to update the driver soon.

Scott

> On Jun 21, 2014, at 5:37 PM, Bob Willcox <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> I have an ASUS Z97I-PLUS ITX motherboard that Freebsd 9.2 (or 9.3-RC1 or 11.0
> 20140614 snapshot) is failing to detect the Intel Ethernet NIC on it. The
> vendor/device id for it is 0x808615A1 and based on what I've located on the
> Internet about it is the "Ethernet Connection (2) I218-V".
> 
> Based on what I see in the source for the if_em driver (in sys/dev/e1000) it
> appears the the "Ethernet Connection I218-V" NIC is supported but I have no
> idea what the differences are between these two. I tried hacking the if_em.c
> code, adding an entry for this device id to the em_vendor_info_array but it
> still was not detected.
> 
> Any help with this would be greatly appreciated! This is going to be a NAS box
> so network support is crucial (and the motherboard has only one PCIe slot
> containing a Hightpoint Rocket RAID controller required for my disks).
> 
> Thanks,
> Bob
> 
> -- 
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