From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 9 17:53: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ra.iago.org (ra.iago.org [192.148.252.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B35E37B405; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 17:53:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from justin@iago.org) Received: from ra.iago.org.iago.org (ra.iago.org [192.148.252.45]) by ra.iago.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA6402C1B8; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 21:10:34 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: fxp SCB timeout problems, anyone have a solution? From: Justin Sheehy Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 21:10:34 -0400 Message-ID: Lines: 56 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.4 (Academic Rigor) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am having a major problem with a FreeBSD-4.3 machine. I dredged through the mailing list archives, and did not find any useful answers. I am hopeful that someone here can help. The machine is currently running 4.3-RELEASE from a CD install. After installing it, I shipped it away to a datacenter which is its intended long-term home. When the machine came up, I logged in and immediately began a cvsup in preparation for bringing the machine up to the head of STABLE. Within a minute or two, the machine was totally unreachable and unresponsive on the network. A reboot brings the machine back online, but it falls off the net again reliably within about 10 minutes. It stays up a bit longer if the network is not being used heavily. The motherboard is an Intel 815SET Easton with onboard NIC. The relevant kernel messages at boot time are: Jul 31 17:08:17 phl /kernel: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001 Jul 31 17:08:17 phl /kernel: jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC Jul 31 17:08:17 phl /kernel: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz Jul 31 17:08:17 phl /kernel: CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (797.42-MHz 686-class CPU) Jul 31 17:08:17 phl /kernel: Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x68a Stepping = 10 Jul 31 17:08:17 phl /kernel: Features=0x383f9ff ... Jul 31 17:08:18 phl /kernel: fxp0: port 0xdf00-0xdf3f mem 0xff8ff000-0xff8fffff irq 11 at device 8.0 on pci1 Jul 31 17:08:18 phl /kernel: fxp0: Ethernet address 00:03:47:a0:49:91 Whenever the machine is falling off-net, the only thing logged looks like this: Aug 9 16:27:02 phl /kernel: fxp0: SCB timeout Aug 9 16:27:02 phl last message repeated 17 times Aug 9 16:27:02 phl /kernel: fxp0: device timeout And then the machine remains off the net until rebooted. Is there any known fix for this? All of the messages that I see on the mailing list archives that have "solutions" involve switching out the hardware for a different NIC. As that would involve having the machine shipped back home and then out again, this is very undesirable. I can usually keep the machine on the net for at least a few minutes at a time before it hangs, so if anyone has any idea how I could possibly fix this remotely I would be greatly appreciative. If there is no way to fix this remotely, that knowledge would also be useful as I will then move ahead with the RMA of the machine. In any case, thank you all in advance for any assistance. Regards, -Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message