From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 29 11:14:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAED516A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 11:14:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74FF143FDF for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 11:14:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301:200:92ff:fe9b:20e7]) (authenticated bits=0) h9TJEWt2031511 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:14:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (cicely12.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301::12]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h9TJER2q008837 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:14:28 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h9TJER2u012952; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:14:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id h9TJEO3w012951; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:14:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:14:24 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: Sam Sen Message-ID: <20031029191423.GS4100@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <000d01c39e31$996030f0$3b01010a@cdssh.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000d01c39e31$996030f0$3b01010a@cdssh.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely12.cicely.de 5.1-CURRENT alpha User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: National SemiConductor NIC X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:14:58 -0000 On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 10:30:35AM -0500, Sam Sen wrote: > Had problems with the National SemiConductor NIC (sis0 chipset) when I was running freebsd 4.8. > i moved to 5.1, and everything seemed to work fine except that my mouse no longer worked. Sparse information to help you with your mouse. > The error message I was getting was "sis0: watchdog time out" > I wonder if this has been fixed in 4.9 Sounds like an interrupt problem, but yet again hard to say more without at least dmesg and pciconf -lv to see details of your hardware and what the kernel thinks about it. I'm not aware of any problem with NatSemi chips in general, likely that this is something special with your ntoebook. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de