From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 4 18:52:56 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 0DD29106564A for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 18:52:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nakal@web.de) Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de (fmmailgate02.web.de [217.72.192.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBCB28FC12 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 18:52:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nakal@web.de) Received: from smtp07.web.de (fmsmtp07.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.215]) by fmmailgate02.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57543E7FBC82; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 20:52:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.236.48.156] (helo=localhost) by smtp07.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.109 #226) id 1KQ5Ar-0001GZ-00; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:52:53 +0200 Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 20:52:52 +0200 From: Martin To: Royce Williams Message-ID: <20080804205252.74141013@web.de> In-Reply-To: <48973DD9.20303@alaska.net> References: <20080801142005.473c17ca@zelda.local> <20080801154208.W6085@fledge.watson.org> <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> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: nakal@web.de X-Sender: nakal@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/bXlT7MA9ZPOCliyDq/tHRkTsWIyD81ebrXDiE yMGsxqh9he/iVzNaB6D7imffFYS7WuR5MTN33g7A7R3et/hBUt dKZnSBTQo= Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Jack Vogel 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 18:52:56 -0000 On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:35:21 -0800 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". Hi Royce, thank you for the link. I've read this issue description and I'm not sure if it helps. I don't have any "watchdog timeouts" and my EEPROM data looks clean: Interface EEPROM Dump: Offset 0x0000 xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx ffff ffff 0x0010 0053 0103 026b 2001 17aa 109a 8086 80df 0x0020 0000 2000 7e54 0000 0014 00da 0004 2700 0x0030 6cc9 3150 073e 040b 298b 0000 f000 0f02 (I masked out the MAC address) -- Martin