Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:13:43 -0400 From: "Brian J. Conway" <bconway@clue4all.net> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE Message-ID: <20070315071343.7763a3ab.bconway@clue4all.net> In-Reply-To: <007b01c76538$03b2ec60$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <20070310105759.6980f90e.bconway@clue4all.net> <007b01c76538$03b2ec60$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645>
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On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:22:44 -0800 "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: > I have found with some of the intel MBs that the latest BIOS update > actually causes trouble. Don't be afraid to try back-flashing to an > older BIOS update. Intel has all the BIOS versions up on their site for > each board. > > Ted Tried a few things in the past couple days: - Set the interfaces to not auto-negotiate and hard-coded them: No change. - Tried the past 3 BIOS revisions I had been using previously: No change. Next up, started swapping around cards. I noticed that one of my 3 3c905C cards hadn't been giving the watchdog timeout errors that I could remember, even though I'm doubting 2/3 of my previously-good cards are actually bad, but I kept that one at xl1 and tried a good 3c905B as xl0. This worked a little differently, now instead of watchdog timeouts, on the previously-normal xl1 I get: Mar 15 05:56:51 imogen kernel: xl1: transmission error: 90 Mar 15 05:56:51 imogen kernel: xl1: tx underrun, increasing tx start threshold to 120 bytes I know it's *technically* an informational message and not a problem, I'm a perfectionist and would prefer it not to be there. Perhaps I need to start from stratch with some em* cards, they've been working well for me everywhere else. (Original discussion: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-March/144227.html) Brian J. Conway
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