After upgrading via sources from 6.2-STABLE (Aug 7) to 6.3-PRERELEASE (snapshots from about November 29 and December 21 tested), em2 interface started spewing out the following ad infinitum: em2: 32 link states coalesced em2: link state changed to UP em2: 19 link states coalesced em2: link state changed to DOWN em2: 3 link states coalesced em2: link state changed to UP em2: 17 link states coalesced em2: link state changed to DOWN em2: link state changed to UP em2: 20 link states coalesced The link led is blinking. Fibers are not connected. Rebooting to 6.2-STABLE from Aug 7 works. This happens on an add-on card with 1000FX (multimode) adapter only. Intel cards on the same system which have UTP interface are OK. Unfortunately I had to plug off the card, but I inserted into a Linux and got the following information about it: 0b:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82542 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Fiber) (rev 02) . but I guess that should be enough to figure out what's going on. I suspect one of the em(4) driver updates broke this particular piece of hardware. Fix: Fix not known. Using 6.2-STABLE from Aug 7 2007 does not yet introduce the problem. How-To-Repeat: Try to boot to a recent RELENG_6 kernel with Intel 82542 network card.
Additional comment: More information about the device: PCI: 0b:01:0: chip 8086,1000 card 8086,1000 rev 02 class 02,00,00 hdr 00
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->jfv Reassign to the maintainer
My testing of stable/10 and -current seems to show across my test boxes that this is no longer happening. If this is still testable and is still an issue, we would request that you test with the upcoming 10.2r beta and report back on a new ticket.