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Date:      Sat, 14 Aug 2004 11:07:58 -0700
From:      "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com>
To:        Vitaly Markitantov <ua_vitaly@yahoo.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: lnc0 in VmWare doesn't work
Message-ID:  <m2r7q9d24h.wl@minion.local.neville-neil.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040814175724.50404.qmail@web13422.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040814132739.25218A-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20040814175724.50404.qmail@web13422.mail.yahoo.com>

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At Sat, 14 Aug 2004 10:57:24 -0700 (PDT),
Vitaly Markitantov wrote:
> 
> 
> --- Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Vitaly Markitantov wrote:
> > 
> > > > I can't get any files off of my system because without lnc0 it has no
> > > > network.  I can only get in on the vmware console.
> > > 
> > > I use for this purpose USB-flash drive.
> > > 
> > > But turning off ACPI does nothing for this problem.  lnc0 still doesn't
> > > work without ACPI too. 
> > 
> > I did make a change yesterday to add IFF_NEEDSGIANT to the ifnet flags of
> > the interface.  Theory suggests this should't be the problem (especially
> > if you're not running with debug.mpsafenet=1), but practice is generally
> > more relevant :-).  Is it possible for you to check to see if the
> > before/after versions of that change to see if that's the cause?
> 
> I will try tomorrow, but i saw problem with lnc0 before yesterdays changes.
> I think problems appeared around August 04-07.

I'm looking at this now, starting with adding the IFF_NEEDSGIANT
flag.  I'll post updates as I find things.

Later,
George



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