Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:04:37 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: User & Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> Cc: Mike Dorin <bsd_mike@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Track down lockup problem-fxp0? Message-ID: <20010803100437.V18533@nexus.root.com> In-Reply-To: <20010802232049.A1881@localhost>; from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:20:49PM -0400 References: <F301Px33E1ioWwr2UAa00000940@hotmail.com> <20010802232049.A1881@localhost>
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>As it was put forth by Mike Dorin on Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:33:08AM +0000... >> >> >> I changed the max users and continue to have the lockups, just >> as frequently. I also gutted the unused device drivers. Still >> know lock. >> >> One thing I did notice was on my linux system, which uses the >> same motherboard, its bootup sequence prints out a message regarding >> a lockup bug in the ethernet card, bypass applied. >> >> Since they both use the fxp0, ether100, I am wondering if that >> has anything to do with it. I have seen a few other complaints >> but nobody claiming a bug. Anybody know anything about this? > > I'm running the same card, but it has not locked up on me yet. I also >run RedHat 7.0 and noticed the same message at bootup. Maybe a nicely >worded email to the writer of the driver would prove useful. Hopefully, if >the Linux driver has a work around for this card, moving this fix to >FreeBSD will be trivial.:) FreeBSD has had the 'lockup' bugfix for several years, probably before Linux had it. I should also mention that the nature of the fix does not allow it to be 'moved from Linux to FreeBSD' like you suggested above. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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