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Date:      Thu, 2 Jul 1998 09:41:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Timothy R. Platt" <tplatt@nethampton.com>
To:        hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   SMC8432T Enabling AUI port?
Message-ID:  <v04003a00b1c12d5df3a0@[204.141.112.245]>

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I recently had a problem with 2 of my machines which caused both to cease
working. Some snip's from my logs:

Jul  1 17:32:22 fbsd /kernel: de0: enabling 10baseT port
Jul  1 17:34:50 fbsd /kernel: de0: enabling AUI port

Jul  1 17:32:44 speedy /kernel: de0: enabling 10baseT port
Jul  1 17:35:07 speedy /kernel: de0: enabling AUI port

At which point both machines stopped responding to incoming telnet/ftp/etc
requests.  The machines could both be pinged successfully, although the
first 5 or so packets were dropped each time I tried.  Also note that the
8523T doesn't even have an AUI port.

Both machines have been cvsup'd and make world' recently (2.2.6-STABLE).

Both machines had an uptime of at least 7 days before this hang.

The system clocks are not synched, so it is more than likely that this
happened to both machines at precisely the same time.  There was nothing
noteworthy in the logs happening immediately before these messages.

Jul  1 18:17:50 speedy /kernel: de0 <Digital 21041 Ethernet> rev 33 int a
irq 10
 on pci0:19:0
Jul  1 18:17:50 speedy /kernel: de0: SMC 21041 [10Mb/s] pass 2.1
Jul  1 18:17:50 speedy /kernel: de0: address 00:e0:29:0e:b4:0c
Jul  1 18:17:50 speedy /kernel: vga0 <VGA-compatible display device> rev 0
on pc
i0:20:0
Jul  1 18:17:50 speedy /kernel: Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
Jul  1 18:17:50 speedy /kernel: sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard
Jul  1 18:17:50 speedy /kernel: sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
Jul  1 18:17:50 speedy /kernel: fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
Jul  1 18:17:50 speedy /kernel: fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
Jul  1 18:17:50 speedy /kernel: fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
Jul  1 18:17:50 speedy /kernel: npx0 flags 0x1 on motherboard
Jul  1 18:17:50 speedy /kernel: npx0: INT 16 interface
Jul  1 18:17:50 speedy /kernel: de0: enabling 10baseT port
Jul  1 18:17:50 speedy /kernel: de0: abnormal interrupt: receive process
stopped

I always get this "abnormal interrupt" message (on both machines); it
appears to be a cosmetic problem only.

Although I hope an "ifconfig de0 media 10baseT/UTP" will solve the problem,
it does seem inherently wrong that an AUI port should be enabled on a card
which doesn't have one.

What's more disconcerting is that a single event could trigger all the
machines on a subnet with this card to simultaneously stop responding.

Regards,

Tim



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