From owner-freebsd-ia64 Mon Jan 27 20:28:26 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17FE737B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 20:28:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from cs.rice.edu (cs.rice.edu [128.42.1.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE66143F43 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 20:28:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jnavarro@cs.rice.edu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cs.rice.edu (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B4CC4AAEF; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:28:16 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cs.rice.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE33F4AAEE; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:28:15 -0600 (CST) Received: from cs.rice.edu (luche.cs.rice.edu [128.42.3.219]) by cs.rice.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D5F34A9B0; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:28:11 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3E3606DB.D65C7AD3@cs.rice.edu> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:28:11 -0600 From: Juan E Navarro X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: "freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG" , Alan Cox Subject: Re: Problems with fxp driver References: <3E35E4A9.3C8A4845@cs.rice.edu> <20030128021356.GA1228@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020300 X-DCC--Metrics: cs.rice.edu 1067; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thanks for the reply, Marcel. Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:02:17PM -0600, Juan E Navarro wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Initialization goes fine: > > fxp0: port 0x1000-0x103f mem > > 0xfdf00000-0xfdffffff,0xfddef000-0xfddeffff irq 44 at device 5.0 on pci0 > > fxp0: Ethernet address 00:d0:b7:f9:f7:e2 > > There should be two more related lines: > > inphy0: on miibus0 > inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto > > or something along those lines. Yup, they are there. > > > And "ifconfig fxp0 inet " also reports no errors. The driver > > even reliably detects whether the network is active or there is no > > carrier. > > > > So far, so good... but that's it. I can't ping anyone in the local net, > > and noone sees me. I'm alone, isolated and depressed! > > Odd. I looks to me the hardware does work fine under FreeBSD, > but that the network settings are incomplete or wrong. Check > if you have DHCP on your network and if so, try that... Been there, done that. > > > Has anyone experienced this problem in an Itanium box? > > No. > > > Any workaround? > > No. > > > Will I be better off with a different NIC? > > I doubt it. Make sure you have a default route configured and that > your netmask is ok. If that fails, try setting the media type by > hand to see if that makes any difference. I know it looks a whole lot like I'm doing something stupid. But before bugging people I tried the same steps in a FreeBSD 4.3/i386 box, and everything works fine. (Incidentally, I don't need a default route to ping machines in my same subnet.) I also tried changing the media type (although autoselect seems to be working). I forgot to mention that I've tried two different i2000's so far. So, next question would be: has anyone succeeded in using the fxp driver in an i2000 box? Wait a minute! dhclient does get the configuration from the DHCP server... which means I'm not as isolated from the world as I thought. OK, since dhclient sends a broadcast to 255.255.255.255 and is apparently receiving replies, I tried the following to fool ping into sending a similar broadcast message (I'm sure I'm going to get the attention of the sysadmins, but what the heck): ifconfig fxp0 inet 255.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 ping 255.255.255.255 and I receive only two or three replies from local fellows but then I stop receiving anything and am isolated again. If I rerun the above ifconfig, I can receive a few more replies. -- ++*Juan-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message