From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 17 01:29:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7382C37B401 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 01:29:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub01.unibe.ch (mailhub01.unibe.ch [130.92.9.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DBBA43F85 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 01:29:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roth@iam.unibe.ch) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhub01.unibe.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3035D25BA68; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:29:21 +0200 (MEST) Received: from mailhub01.unibe.ch ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailhub01 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08325-01-54; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:29:20 +0200 (MEST) Received: from asterix.unibe.ch (asterix.unibe.ch [130.92.64.4]) by mailhub01.unibe.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B45725BA86; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:29:20 +0200 (MEST) Received: from speedy.unibe.ch (speedy [130.92.64.35]) by asterix.unibe.ch (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h6H8TJK13107; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:29:19 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from roth@localhost) by speedy.unibe.ch (8.11.6+Sun/8.10.2) id h6H8TJR24063; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:29:19 +0200 (MEST) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:29:18 +0200 From: Tobias Roth To: stark Message-ID: <20030717082918.GA21592@speedy.unibe.ch> References: <20030717012649.54310.qmail@secure-info.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030717012649.54310.qmail@secure-info.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: SunOS speedy 5.8 Generic_108528-16 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80 X-Virus-checked: by University of Berne cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with fxp0 on T30 with 5.1-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:29:23 -0000 > The problem : > "fxp0: device timeout" > appears continuously (about every 15 seconds) while interface is UP this is caused by an irq conflict. the bug was introduced some time between 5.0 and 5.1. i have no idea how to solve this, maybe someone else can help here. maybe the ibm ps2 tool offers some help. it also happens on non-thinkpad systems, as previously discussed (on -mobile or -current, i forgot). so the ps2 approach, if it works, will just be a workaround. another workaround is to free an irq. for me, disabling the pcmcia stuff in the kernel config helped. others reported that disabling the serial port helped for them. this has to be fixed before 5.2, imho. it renders a default install on thinkpads useless. note that this does NOT happen on all thinkpad systems, i didn't figure out what makes up the difference. hope that helps, t.