Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:15:39 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recent stability problems with fxp driver Message-ID: <XFMail.20030912141539.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.0.20030912170617.0571b5b8@209.112.4.2>
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On 12-Sep-2003 Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 05:01 PM 12/09/2003, John Polstra wrote: > >>When I first installed FreeBSD on this system, it disabled dynamic >>standby mode as you showed above. Maybe it shouldn't have ... :-) > > Is it possible Dell re-enables it somehow in the BIOS ? Perhaps your > version of the NIC needs it disabled a different way ? Could be ... I don't know. The driver checks whether dynamic standby mode is enabled in the EEPROM at attach time, and if it is enabled the driver emits that message and turns it off again. I only saw the message the first time I booted FreeBSD. So if the BIOS is overriding the setting, it's not doing so by scribbling in the EEPROM. > Also I found I needed to physically power off some of the machines > for the change to take effect and also the problem was MUCH more > acute at 10baseT than 100BaseTX. I think jlemon said it was in both > modes, but I only ever saw the problem at 10baseT and like you saw, > it didnt take much to force the issue. I've definitely got a 100 Mbps full-duplex link. I haven't tried it at 10 Mbps, and I wouldn't bother using them at that speed even if they worked perfectly. John
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