From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 5 08:08:23 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 9E83137B401; Sat, 5 Apr 2003 08:08:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from newsguy.com (smtp.newsguy.com [129.250.170.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C95A443FA3; Sat, 5 Apr 2003 08:08:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (200-163-025-075.bsace7026.dsl.brasiltelecom.net.br [200.163.25.75]) by newsguy.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA08596; Sat, 5 Apr 2003 08:08:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3E8EFF73.90900@newsguy.com> Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 13:08:19 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210 X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,pt,en-GB,en-US,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maxime Henrion References: <20030405002444.GR1750@elvis.mu.org> <20030405155833.GV1750@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20030405155833.GV1750@elvis.mu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: fxp breakage 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: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 16:08:23 -0000 Maxime Henrion wrote: > Hi all, > > > I was finally able to reproduce the problems people have been reporting. > That is, the fxp(4) card works but there are many odd "unknown: DMA > timeout" and "unknown: device timeout" messages. This was due to a bug > in fxp(4) which was harmless unless you used DEVICE_POLLING. These > problems go away when using the 1.156 revision of if_fxp.c. > > Please note that other people have been reporting different symptoms, ie > the card sees no traffic at all. I'm not sure the latest sources fix > these cases too, but I'm fairly confident they do, because one person who > has been reporting me such symptoms was using DEVICE_POLLING too. Mmmmmm. Now that I think of it, I am too. On this particular machine. I had forgotten I had configured DEVICE_POLLING in this host alone... :-( Sorry about that. Could have speeded up things some. I'm trying a new kernel now. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@professional.bsdconspiracy.net Spellng is overated anywy.