Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 21:09:34 +0100 From: Matthew Whelan <muttley@gotadsl.co.uk> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: usb0 controller halted error Message-ID: <20010924200936.F3D1837B41A@hub.freebsd.org>
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24/09/2001 17:04:10, Olivier Saut <Olivier.Saut@gmm.insa-tlse.fr> wrote: >Hello, > >I run the Alcatel Speedtouch USB driver (/usr/ports/net/pppoa or >http://www.xsproject.org/speedtouch/) for my ADSL line. > >Under heavy upload, the connection stops, the modem switches off. >The console keeps printing "usb0 controller halted". <snip> >The computer is an Athlon on a Asus A7V MB. >dmesg is attached. > >Is this a known problem? Is there a solution for it? Bad news I'm afraid. This is a problem with the USB support in the VIA chipset - I have an Abit KT7A-RAID here running win2k, I gave up trying to get the thing working. At first it would only die under heavy load, then it ended up dying with even only about 10k/sec each way. Not all VIA's chipsets are broken - the box I'm now using to route my ADSL has kept the connect up for over 8 days now, on an old MVP3-based board. I know of other people who dumped their Athlons and bought Intel in frustration with this problem (I haven't heard whether AMD chipsets suffer from this problem though, but I think it also occurs with Intel CPU+VIA 686B southbridge boards) Oh, and to get the driver working on the current box I had to grab the latest versions of all the files from the CVS repository linked from http://www.xsproject.org/speedtouch/ and use pppoa2m in my !device line in ppp.conf, as pppoa2 in the 15082001 snapshot has a timeout problem on FreeBSD (pppoa3 was very much work-in-progress last time I checked) Sorry I can't be of more use :| Matthew >The BIOS setting Advanced->"System Performance" is set to "Normal" instead of >the default "Optimal". "Optimal" makes this error happen more often. The >BIOS version is the last one from Asus site. > >The out bandwith is limited to 128Kbits/s by dummynet on the tun0 >interface. > >Thanks for your help! > > Olivier > -------- End of forwarded message -------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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