From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 11:14:00 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4805316A401 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:14:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bconway@clue4all.net) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [63.240.77.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EB0813C45E for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:13:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bconway@clue4all.net) Received: from ladyluck.clue4all.net (c-24-218-44-66.hsd1.ma.comcast.net[24.218.44.66]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2007031511135901100agjjbe>; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:13:59 +0000 Received: from ladyluck.clue4all.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ladyluck.clue4all.net (Postfix) with SMTP id F3C072D4118; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:13:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:13:43 -0400 From: "Brian J. Conway" To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Message-Id: <20070315071343.7763a3ab.bconway@clue4all.net> In-Reply-To: <007b01c76538$03b2ec60$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <20070310105759.6980f90e.bconway@clue4all.net> <007b01c76538$03b2ec60$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> Organization: Clue 4 All, Inc. X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:14:00 -0000 On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:22:44 -0800 "Ted Mittelstaedt" 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