Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 19:33:07 +0200 (CEST) From: "Daniel Engberg" <diizzy@telia.com> To: obrien@freebsd.org, "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> Cc: Daniel Engberg <diizzy@telia.com> Subject: Re: AMD PCnet/PCI Fast Ethernet driver issues in 5.3RC1 / 5.3-STABLE Message-ID: <200410271733.i9RHX7l13702@d1o409.telia.com>
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quoting David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org>: > On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 12:06:26AM +0200, Daniel Engberg wrote: > > Hi, > > Currently I'm running 5.3-RC1 / 5.3-STABLE and it seems like this > > version have issues with AMD PCnet/PCI Fast Ethernet NICs. The driver > > (pcn) loads and detects the NIC properly without any errors but the > > interface is unable to trasmit or receive any data. A workaround (not a > > very nice one afaik), is to recompile the kernel and leave out the pcn > > driver. By doing so FreeBSD will use the old lnc driver instead which > > works. Any ideas what's causing this behaviour? > > I'm using "FreeBSD BOX.BUNDLE 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #1: Thu Oct > > 21 17:55:29 CEST 2004". > > What is the dmesg output for this device? Several of my machines have > pcn(4) devices: > > pcn0: <AMD PCnet/PCI 10/100BaseTX> > > with zero problems. > > -- > -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) > Hi, the dmesg output is the following. pcn0: <AMD PCnet/PCI 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe400-0xe41f mem 0xe2001000-0xe200101f irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0 miibus0: <MII bus> on pcn0 lxtphy0: <LXT970 10/100 media interface> on miibus0 lxtphy0: 100baseFX, 100baseFX-FDX, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, audio pcn0: Ethernet address: 00:60:b0:eb:c3:c6 pcn0: if_start running deferred for Giant pcn0: [GIANT-LOCKED] //Danne
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