Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 18:59:08 -0800 From: Russell Jackson <rjackson@cserv62.csub.edu> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RTL8139C+ re driver watchdog timeout Message-ID: <3FDD237C.4090206@cserv62.csub.edu> In-Reply-To: <1071444376.436.8.camel@madoka> References: <200312142213.hBEMDI3Q099167@spider.deepcore.dk> <1071444376.436.8.camel@madoka>
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Simon Loader wrote: >On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 22:13, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > >>It seems Russell Jackson wrote: >> >> >>>Ever since 8139C+ support was seperated from the rl driver into the re >>>driver, I have had timeout problems. The interface simply stops >>>responding randomly. I never had this problem with the rl driver. At >>>first I thought this might be do to ACPI not initializing the NIC >>>correctly, but I have the same problem with ACPI disabled. Ifconfig >>>doesn't correctly display media status either. It shows media (none) >>>even though a cable is connected, and the interface will work (however >>>with the timeout problem). >>> >>>re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 >>> options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING> >>> inet 192.168.0.4 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 >>> ether 00:08:02:d0:21:4e >>> media: Ethernet 100baseTX <full-duplex> (none) >>> >>>Note that I set the media type and mediaopt manually with ifconfig. It >>>still shows a status of none. >>> >>>Also note that this same hardware did work perfectly before with the old >>>rl driver. >>> >>> >>Just a "me too" entry here, I've put an ifconfig down/up in crontab >>every minute, that seems to keep the interface up :) >> >> > > >yes another me too with a bit more info > >But I can get this to happen almost every time with a cvsup. (this is >current). > >What happens is it eventually the chip must stop responding or the code >is not removing mbufs correctly as sc->rl_ldata.rl_tx_free <= 4 in >re_encap causes it to stop. > >HTH > > > > Actually, my fustration in trying to cvsup on this machine is what prompted me to post ;-)
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