Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 11:15:26 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: tweten@nas.nasa.gov Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xircom Watchdog Time-out Bug Message-ID: <200105081815.f48IFQc28651@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 May 2001 21:10:22 PDT." <200105080410.f484AN070438@gilmore.nas.nasa.gov>
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> From: Dave Tweten <tweten@nas.nasa.gov> > Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 21:10:22 -0700 > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > > I have a Xircom CE3B-100BTX 10/100 PCCard that has always worked sort-of okay > with the STABLE xe driver when set up with a fixed IP address. There's always > been the minor problem that it suffers one watchdog timer alarm before being > successfully configured. With a fixed IP, that's no real problem, but with > DHCP, dhclient gets confused by the watchdog and fails consistantly. > > What the manual calls the "Link Integrity" LED on the dongle stays off until > the watchdog timer power cycles the card. > > If someone with some experience with this driver can shed some light on the > problem, dhclient and I would appreciate it. I want to try to fix this when I get a little time, but it's not a problem for me, so it may not happen in my lifetime. :-( What I wonder is why it's a problem for you? I use DHCP exclusively to configure my network on my laptop as it moves between three different nets on a regular basis. While I see the timeout messages every time the card starts, it has never effected DHCP operation. What DHCP server are you using? I'm using isc-dhcp2 in all locations, but this should be irrelevant as the server never gets a packet until the card comes on-line. How are your pccard.conf, rc.conf, and dhclient.conf set up? I have nothing special in dhclient.conf and only a list of really available IRQs in pccard.conf. But I have several things in rc.conf: pccard_enable="YES" pccard_ifconfig="DHCP" pccardd_flags="-z" R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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