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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 2024 09:07:31 +0000
From:      Lexi Winter <lexi@le-fay.org>
To:        Rocky Hotas <rockyhotas@post.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Network interface not working: watchdog timeout error
Message-ID:  <ZaeY0yOs5HzIO-ju@ilythia.eden.le-fay.org>
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Rocky Hotas:
> With FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE I have this (quite old) network interface,
> which is embedded in the motherboard:
>
> nfe0@pci0:0:15:0:       class=3D0x020000 rev=3D0xa2 hdr=3D0x00 vendor=3D0=
x10de device=3D0x07dc subvendor=3D0x1734 subdevice=3D0x115b
=20
> It performed normally for several days and across several reboots. Then,
> without applying any modification to the configuration, the system was
> physically powered down and booted again: the network card did no more
> work. After another reboot, nothing changed.
[...]
> Is there anything that can be done from the OS, or is it a hardware issue?

according to the nfe(4) manual page, it supports the hw.nfe.msix_disable
and hw.nfe.msi_disable loader tunables.  i don't know anything about
nfe(4) specifically, but some other network cards (such as alc(4)) have
issues with MSI or MSI-X enabled, so it might be worth turning those off
in /boot/loader.conf to see if that makes any difference.

for example:

hw.nfe.msi_disable=3D1
hw.nfe.msix_disable=3D1

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