From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Jul 16 5:22:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.du.gtn.com (mail.du.gtn.com [194.77.9.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10FA937BBC8; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 05:22:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from mail.cicely.de (cicely.de [194.231.9.142]) by mail.du.gtn.com (8.11.0.Beta3/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id e6GCM6Q03174 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified OK); Sun, 16 Jul 2000 14:22:09 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (cicely8.cicely.de [10.1.2.10]) by mail.cicely.de (8.11.0.Beta1/8.11.0.Beta1) with ESMTP id e6GCLSq32605; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 14:21:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.9.3/8.9.2) id OAA14681; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 14:21:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 14:21:24 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: Mike Smith Cc: dg@root.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fxp0 hangs on a PC164 using STABLE Message-ID: <20000716142124.A14427@cicely8.cicely.de> References: <200007141707.KAA16976@implode.root.com> <200007142125.OAA05782@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200007142125.OAA05782@mass.osd.bsdi.com>; from msmith@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 02:25:05PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 02:25:05PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > >fxp is not supported on the Alpha, and known to be unreliable there. > > >Contact the maintainer or use a different card. FWIW, this actually > > >sounds like an issue that's been seen on x86 as well. > > > > It does? I've never heard of a bug report like this for x86 and in fact I'm > > not aware of any bugs in the driver for x86. > > It's been described many times, actually. It sounds a lot like a bad > interaction between either the card or the driver and the hub/switch at > the other end, however it's shown up on a reasonably regular basis. At least I can say that the card/switch is not the problem here. The card and the switch are fixed configured to 100M/full-duplex. There are several x86 FreeBSD hosts with fxp cards running at the same switch without any problems. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message