From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 17 7:42:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0312C37B600 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 07:42:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@wnm.net) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA16887; Wed, 17 May 2000 09:42:45 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 09:42:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Harry Woodward-Clarke Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: DEC DE203 (le0) / FreeBSD 4.0 In-Reply-To: <3921EA5A.5505D3C9@S1.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 17 May 2000, Harry Woodward-Clarke wrote: > FreeBSD V4 crashes during le0 (DE203) config. > > - And type ifconfig le0 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 > - Which results in (full details): > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > Fault virtual address: 0x0 > Fault code: Supervisor read, page not present > Instruction pointer: 0x8:0x0 > Stack pointer 0x10: 0xcccced7c > Frame pointer: 0x10: 0Xcccced90 > Code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b > - DPL0, pres 1 def32 1, gran 1 > Processor flag=interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL-0 > Current process = 179 (ifconfig) > Inerrupt mask = net tty > Trap number = 12 > Panic: page fault > > During reboot sequence... > > Starting standard daemons: inetd crontab sendmail > Mode = 041777, inum=108, fs=/ > Panic: ffs_valloc, dup alloc > Synching disks 39 39 26 2 > Done > Uptime 4.5 > > PC Configuration > > Intel PIII-450, 256MB, Gigabyte BX2000, DE203 NIC (hence le0 > device), Quantum CX 6G, using a second partition as FreeBSD. > > NIC Settings: irq 10, iomem 0xD0000, port 300 > > It is my 'hope' to go to FreeBSD 4.0 - the "problem" is, I too have > DE203 NICs in a couple of my machines at home, so I will be having the > same problem real soon now. > I've had le0 (DE201) repeatedly crash one machine during ifconfig, with a very different hardware configuration. I was going to try it on at least one more machine before filing a PR. I wouldn't upgrade to 4.0 yet if you plan on using those NICs. It seems the only remedy is to replace the NIC with one that uses a different driver. hth -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message