From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 3 10:18:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from root.com (unknown [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58BAD37B403 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:18:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg@root.com) Received: (from dg@localhost) by root.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f73H4bE66276; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:04:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:04:37 -0700 From: David Greenman To: User & Ian Patrick Thomas Cc: Mike Dorin , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Track down lockup problem-fxp0? Message-ID: <20010803100437.V18533@nexus.root.com> References: <20010802232049.A1881@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010802232049.A1881@localhost>; from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:20:49PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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