From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 3 01:09:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C80816A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 01:09:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tower.berklix.org (bsd.bsn.com [194.221.32.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A233243D2D for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 01:09:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from js.berklix.net (pD9E4DC47.dip.t-dialin.net [217.228.220.71]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iA319I03090310; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 02:09:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from laps.jhs.private (laps.jhs.private [192.168.91.56]) by js.berklix.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iA319FXD005732; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 02:09:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from laps.jhs.private (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by laps.jhs.private (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iA319E2B044820; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 02:09:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@laps.jhs.private) Message-Id: <200411030109.iA319E2B044820@laps.jhs.private> In-Reply-To: Message from "Julian H. Stacey" <200411012204.iA1M484C092809@laps.jhs.private> Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 02:09:14 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" cc: Ruben de Groot cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Toshiba Libretto 70CT ep0 intermittent X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 01:09:36 -0000 Ruben de Groot cc freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org I used some search engines, found these rc.conf bits on a Japanese site saver="daemon" apm_enable="YES" pccardd_flags="-i 11" (no I don't read Japanese) but I'd always been wary of my IRQ 5 ep0: <3Com Etherlink III 3C589> at port 0x240-0x24f irq 5 slot 0 on pccard0 It's early to say as the fault was intermittent, but I think the fault is now gone :-) Does it help you too ? Maybe something else sits on irq 5 though unshown by my generic dmesg, guessing maybe something like sound ? Dont know. "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > I started this thread on current@ as > Subject: 5.3-RC1 attempt with a Toshiba Libretto 70CT failed, 4.10 OK > But it evolved to be ep0 intermittent on 4.10-RELEASE, so moved to mobile@. > I don't know if Ruben de Groot is on mobile@ so please > don't drop him off CC: unless he says he is. He has same problem I do. > > Ruben de Groot wrote (Re. my mail about installing): > > > BTW on 4.10 The ftp through ep0 ethernet chugs along at 1 K byte / sec ! > > > & expires half way through load of /bin > > > & Ive used that pcmcia ether card with FBSD before, its OK, > > > so it's the libretto. > > > > I had the same kind of problems on my Libretto 70CT and a 3Com 3CCFE574BT. > > After the installation (5.1 and 4.9) over SLIP, the NIC kept giving me > > extremely low throughput. I did a little testing: > > Now multi user on 4.10 I still see intermittent ep0 freezes: > I've also tried 2 other ether cards since, another 3com 589, (with > same external BNC & UTP transducer) & a 3com Office Connect 3CXSH572BT > with an X Jack UTP connection: All cards behave OK with FreeBSD > elsewhere, I've also tried with UTP & co ax, all my other hosts ping OK. > > > > Pinging from the libretto to another system, both running tcpdump, would > > give normal results on the other system (1 ICMP request arriving every > > second, 1 reply being send back). > > On the Libretto however, the replies would not show up in the tcpdump > > trace for a long time, sometimes over 60 seconds, after which I would > > see a "burst" of replies in a few seconds, but a lot of them never > > showed up at all. > > So it looks like the problem was in the receive side of the NIC/driver. > > I see on remote host (name=flip) with "tcpdump -i ed0 host lapl" both > "icmp: echo request" * "icmp: echo reply" > I see on libretto host (name=lapl) with "tcpdump -i ep0 host flip" just > "icmp: echo request" > Perhaps this means the interrupt on receive is lost ? > > > The hardware is fine btw; the Linux driver has no problems with this > > configuration. > > I'm still learning /boot/loader.conf > (copies of syntax I'm thinking of periodically go to > http://berklix.org/~jhs/hw/toshiba/libretto.70ct/boot/loader.conf > but I might even have correct stuff there, then delete again in error, > it's hard to decide what belongs there.) > > I guess we need some loader.conf magic ! > Warner or someone have some suggestions please ? - Julian Stacey. Unix,C,Net & Sys. Eng. Consultant, Munich. http://berklix.com Mail in Ascii, Html dumped as Spam. Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz.