From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 5 16:32:35 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 DF4FA37B401; Sat, 5 Apr 2003 16:32:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from newsguy.com (smtp.newsguy.com [129.250.170.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5160343F93; Sat, 5 Apr 2003 16:32:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (200-140-006-117.bsace7026.dsl.brasiltelecom.net.br [200.140.6.117]) by newsguy.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA27385; Sat, 5 Apr 2003 16:32:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3E8F759D.6050902@newsguy.com> Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 21:32:29 -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: "Daniel C. Sobral" References: <20030405002444.GR1750@elvis.mu.org> <20030405155833.GV1750@elvis.mu.org> <3E8EFF73.90900@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <3E8EFF73.90900@newsguy.com> 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: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 00:32:36 -0000 Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > 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. Ok, this fixes it for me. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@professional.bsdconspiracy.net Spellng is overated anywy.