From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 7 01:31:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EE6C16A4CE for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 01:31:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40BD943D41 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 01:31:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2F52172DF2; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 18:31:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D62172DB5; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 18:31:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 18:31:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Brad Waite In-Reply-To: <40EB532A.8020401@wcubed.net> Message-ID: <20040706183105.R24627@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <1068.24.9.172.8.1089064477.squirrel@webmail.wcubed.net> <20040706160201.X24627@carver.gumbysoft.com> <40EB532A.8020401@wcubed.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gigabits, watchdog timeouts and downtime, oh my! X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 01:31:35 -0000 On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Brad Waite wrote: > >>Decided to move into the Gigabit world yesterday and picked up a SMC > >>9452TX for my 4.10-STABLE box. I rebuilt the kernel with the sk device > >>and while it works somewhat, I'm getting 'sk0: watchdog timeout' errors > >>and the card goes down for a few seconds before waking back up. This > >>happens under relatively light traffic, too. > > > > > > Sounds like autoneg flaking out; try a different cable? > > > > No I didn't, but I did enable "PCI IRQs to IO-APIC mapping" in my BIOS. > Everything works like a champ now. Woot! Wierd. What brand/model of system or motherboard do you have? It seems odd that theres even a toggle for that. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org