From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 16 14:29:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA19809 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 14:29:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from athena.veritas.com (athena.veritas.com [192.203.46.191]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA19798 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 14:29:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aaron@sigma.veritas.com) Received: from megami.veritas.com by athena.veritas.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.0 #9) id m0xXDBO-000ikiC; Sun, 16 Nov 97 14:28 PST Received: from sigma.veritas.com by megami.veritas.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.0 #7) id m0xXDBN-00000jC; Sun, 16 Nov 97 14:28 PST Message-Id: From: Aaron Smith To: "Stephen J. Roznowski" cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Diagnosing Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 16 Nov 1997 13:17:44 PST." <199711162117.NAA21287@implode.root.com> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 14:28:40 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 16 Nov 1997 13:17:44 PST, David Greenman writes: >>I'm been having a reoccuring problem with an Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ >>Ethernet card. When I reboot into FreeBSD from Windows 95, occasionally >>the card won't come back in a working state. Rebooting multiple times >>will cause the card to eventually work. [This is on an 18 October kernel, >>but has occurred on earlier kernels as well.] >> >>Each time, the card seems to be recognized correctly during the probe, >>but when I try to (for example) ping a remote address, I get a "no route >>to host" message [not sure of exact wording]. If I configure the interface >>down, then back up, I get a "could not allocate llinfo" error. >> >>My question is, how can I go about diagnosing (and fixing :-) this problem? [i'm assuming you're talking about the ie driver] i saw this problem with the ie driver, but only when rebooting to Win95 *from* FreeBSD. is that what you meant? i fixed this when i worked on the ie0 driver by re-initializing the card in a shutdown() routine. it worked for me, but unfortunately it caused panics for some people which i lacked time to work on / wasn't able to reproduce. so it didn't get into the tree. if you want to try it i can hunt for the code. if you really meant booting to freebsd from win95, ignore this msg. aaron