From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 4 18:15:59 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 382A41065675 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 18:15:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from royce@alaska.net) Received: from hermes.acsalaska.net (hermes.acsalaska.net [209.112.173.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DADDB8FC14 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 18:15:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from royce@alaska.net) Received: from [10.0.102.101] (209-112-156-40-adslb0fh.acsalaska.net [209.112.156.40]) by hermes.acsalaska.net (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m74IFvr4039880; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 10:15:57 -0800 (AKDT) (envelope-from royce@alaska.net) Message-ID: <4897475D.3020600@alaska.net> Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:15:57 -0800 From: Royce Williams User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080708 Thunderbird/2.0.0.16 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jack Vogel References: <20080801142005.473c17ca@zelda.local> <2a41acea0808010924u22603c61p10e47237fad5b6fb@mail.gmail.com> <20080802064727.042d5e3d@web.de> <2a41acea0808021034g588fdc77w50797f473e8809b0@mail.gmail.com> <20080804113448.0a4b3991@zelda.local> <20080804102307.GA28928@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20080804125138.59ed0252@zelda.local> <20080804174458.4dda8369@zelda.local> <2a41acea0808041018nc60b3uf53d2e898a73d9a9@mail.gmail.com> <48973DD9.20303@alaska.net> <2a41acea0808041054j1523a6d6gcb8b7f726bfbc4a9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0808041054j1523a6d6gcb8b7f726bfbc4a9@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 OpenPGP: url=http://www.tycho.org/royce/royce@alaska.net.asc X-Face: ">19[ShfDD9'g", GrH$'v:=qBVZdg.kXSBR6*ZC$am:D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ACS-Spam-Status: no X-ACS-Scanned-By: MD 2.63; SA 3.2.3; spamdefang 1.122 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Martin Subject: Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:15:59 -0000 Jack Vogel wrote, on 8/4/2008 9:54 AM: > On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Royce Williams wrote: >> Jack Vogel wrote, on 8/4/2008 9:18 AM: >>> The focus here on the laptop distracted me, but someone else at work >>> reminded me. Its very important that you run the EEPROM fix for >>> the 82573 that i posted a long while back, search in email archive >>> for it. Its a DOS executable that will patch your EEPROM. >>> >>> I am not sure if the Lenova's need it, but get it, run it, and then >>> see if your problem goes away. >> Martin, there's also a link to it from Jeremy's "Commonly Reported >> Issues" page: >> >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues >> >> Look for "DOS-based EEPROM". >> >> >> Jack, is this issue the same one that is documented here? >> >> http://e1000.sourceforge.net/doku.php?id=known_issues#v_l_e_tx_unit_hang_messages >> >> >> ... and addressed by this script? >> >> http://e1000.sourceforge.net/doku.php?id=tx_unit_hang >> >> >> If so, the script could be used without booting from a DOS disk. If >> this is unrelated or is an unsafe way to apply this fix, that would be >> handy to know. > Thanks for the pointer Royce, and yes that's the issue, and if you > want to boot Linux and use that instead of DOS then more power to > you. Excellent! For some folks, booting from a Knoppix or Ubuntu CD might be easier than trying to gen up a DOS-bootable USB key. I think that recent Knoppix and Ubuntu include ethtool out of the box. Point of clarity: the script that I linked to above is to test/invoke the problem, not to "address" it. Below is the script that calls ethtool to change the actual bits: http://e1000.sourceforge.net/files/fixeep-82573-dspd.sh Royce -- Royce D. Williams - http://royce.ws/ The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. -A.Adler