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Date:      Sat, 14 Apr 2001 02:34:30 -0700
From:      Forrest <praxis@techpraxis.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Please help: -- sis0 : watchdog timeout?
Message-ID:  <B6FD67B5.756E%praxis@techpraxis.com>
In-Reply-To: <001d01c0c32e$1dea9a40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>

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On 4/12/01 1:54 AM, "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> is said to
have spake:

> You don't say what model/type of switch you have which hinders
> troubleshooting. 

It is a Fore Systems ES-2810. However, this behaviour occurs no matter what
kind of port I plug the CAT5 cable into. The Switch doesn't hinder
troubleshooting (not sure why you said that?)

> But, first I'd try using ifconfig to lock both
> interfaces into 10BaseT half-duplex and see if the problem goes
> away or not.
I tried this, using the media options in ifconfig...timeout still occurs
when ports are both "active" and "10-base T UTP."

I am still looking for help on this; Ted, thanks for your reply.
Again, I really appreciate any help anyone can render with this problem. The
motherboard has the standard SiS 9000 ethernet chip on it, that is the LAN
controller for this on-board LAN port, so it makes sense that it uses the
'sis' driver. When I look online for clues as to how to troubleshoot and fix
"watchdog timeout" errors on *BSDs and Linux, it looks like several things
can be the cause. I am pretty sure it is a hardware problem with FreeBSD, if
someone could help me track it down I would be most grateful...

Cheers
Forrest H.
> 
> Ted Mittelstaedt                      tedm@toybox.placo.com
> Author of:          The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
> Book website:         http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Forrest
>> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 1:00 AM
>> To: FreeBSD Questions
>> Subject: Please help: -- sis0 : watchdog timeout?
>> 
>> 
>> A Call for help from the excellence of this list:
>> 
>> My FreeBSD box is giving me TROUBLE.... If someone could detect what is
>> wrong, and if it is a bug, please tell me how to submit it to the kernel
>> people...
>> 
>> I have two ethernet interfaces, a 3Com 905C-TX that is flawless so far, it
>> uses the "xl" driver, and an onboard LAN port that was autodetected at
>> FreeBSD install and assigned the "sis" driver.
>> 
>> Description of problem:  seconds after pluggin' my second ethernet
>> interface
>> into my switch, (also occurs plugged into a Netgear 10BT hub), no matter
>> what cat-5 cable I use(I switched out cables furiously), I get this message
>> on the console:
>> 
>> Mymachine /kernel: sis0: watchdog timeout
>> Then ping yields:
>> Ping: sendto: Host is down
>> (repeats until Ctrl-C)
>> 
>> Description of freebsd system:
>> FreeBSD 4.3-BETA, running kernel compiled from sources.
>> 
>> Description of hardware:
>> Processor: Athlon 600 MHz
>> Motherboard: ECS K7ASA w/ AGP slot, two PCI Bus Master UDMA ports, 2 ATAPI
>> ea.
>> RAM: 256 MB PC 100 SDRAM, 3.3V unbuffered DIMMS.
>> ---> Embedded Network interface:
>> 
>> Here is the results of /sbin/dmesg:
>> 
>> Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
>> Timecounter "TSC"  frequency 598839452 Hz
>> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (598.84-MHz 686-class CPU)
>>  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x621  Stepping = 1
>> 
>> Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,
>> MCA,CMOV,
>> PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
>>  AMD Features=0xc0400000<AMIE,DSP,3DNow!>
>> real memory  = 134217728 (131072K bytes)
>> config> di sn0
>> config> di lnc0
>> config> di ie0
>> config> di fe0
>> config> di cs0
>> config> q
>> avail memory = 126726144 (123756K bytes)
>> Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc03d5000.
>> Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc03d509c.
>> Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
>> md0: Malloc disk
>> npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
>> npx0: INT 16 interface
>> pcib0: <AMD-751 host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
>> pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
>> pcib1: <AMD-751 PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
>> pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
>> pci1: <ATI Mach64-GB graphics accelerator> at 5.0 irq 11
>> isab0: <PCI to ISA bridge (vendor=1022 device=7408)> at device 7.0 on pci0
>> isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
>> atapci0: <AMD 756 ATA66 controller> port 0xf000-0xf00f at device
>> 7.1 on pci0
>> ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
>> ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
>> chip1: <PCI to Other bridge (vendor=1022 device=740b)> at device
>> 7.3 on pci0
>> ohci0: <AMD-756 USB Controller> mem 0xefffe000-0xefffefff irq 9 at device
>> 7.4 on pci0
>> usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
>> usb0: SMM does not respond, resetting
>> usb0: <AMD-756 USB Controller> on ohci0
>> usb0: USB revision 1.0
>> uhub0: AMD OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
>> uhub0: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
>> xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xd400-0xd47f mem
>> 0xefffdf80-0xefffdfff irq 5 at device 10.0 on pci0
>> xl0: Ethernet address: 00:01:02:87:04:af
>> miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0
>> xlphy0: <3c905C 10/100 internal PHY> on miibus0
>> xlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
>> pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x14f1, dev=0x1036) at 11.0 irq 9
>> ahc0: <Adaptec 2910/15/20/30C SCSI adapter> port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem
>> 0xeffff000-0xefffffff irq 10 at device 12.0 on pci0
>> ahc0: Host Adapter Bios disabled.  Using default SCSI device parameters
>> aic7850: Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/255 SCBs
>> sis0: <SiS 900 10/100BaseTX> port 0xcc00-0xccff mem 0xefffc000-0xefffcfff
>> irq 9
>> at device 14.0 on pci0
>> sis0: Ethernet address: 00:d0:09:53:6f:82
>> miibus1: <MII bus> on sis0
>> ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus1
>> ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
>> pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x13f6, dev=0x0111) at 15.0 irq 10
>> fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
>> fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
>> fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
>> atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
>> atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
>> kbd0 at atkbd0
>> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
>> sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
>> sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
>> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
>> sio0: type 16550A
>> sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
>> sio1: type 16550A
>> ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
>> ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode
>> plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
>> lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
>> lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
>> ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
>> IP Filter: v3.4.16 initialized.  Default = pass all, Logging = enabled
>> ad0: 29314MB <IBM-DTLA-307030> [59560/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66
>> acd0: CDROM <TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6102B> at ata1-master using PIO3
>> Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
>> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a
>> xl0: promiscuous mode enabled
>> sis0: watchdog timeout
>> sis0: watchdog timeout
>> 
>> and the result of ifconfig:
>> xl0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>>        inet <<ipaddress>> netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 64.221.116.255
>>        inet6 fe80::201:2ff:fe87:4af%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
>>        ether 00:01:02:87:04:af
>>        media: autoselect (10baseT/UTP) status: active
>>        supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX
>> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP 100baseTX <hw-loopback>
>> sis0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>>        inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
>>        inet6 fe80::2d0:9ff:fe53:6f82%sis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
>>        ether 00:d0:09:53:6f:82
>>        media: autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active
>>        supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX
>> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP none
>> lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
>>        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
>>        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>>        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>> ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>> faith0: flags=8000<MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>> gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
>> gif1: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
>> gif2: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
>> gif3: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
>> 
>> Any other details that help in troubleshooting can be provided on request.
>> Thank you,
>> Forrest H.
>> 
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