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Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 18:59:08 -0800
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Subject: Re: RTL8139C+ re driver watchdog timeout
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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 ;-)