From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Jul 26 2:32:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.baerum.kommune.no (mail.baerum.kommune.no [195.134.40.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0DE3D37B409 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 02:32:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Idar.Tollefsen@baerum.kommune.no) Received: from SA-D01-Message_Server by mail.baerum.kommune.no with Novell_GroupWise; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:32:46 +0200 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.2 Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:32:29 +0200 From: "Idar Tollefsen" To: Subject: "??0: watchdog timeout"; MII related? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----------------------------------------------------- Following a request from Ted Mittelstaedt to post this to freebsd-alpha instead of freebsd-questions, I apologize to those of you who subscribe to both lists. He felt this list would be better suited to help me than the general freebsd-questions crowd. ----------------------------------------------------- Hello, I have now tried the following four NIC's on OpenBSD 2.9 and FreeBSD 4.3: - 3C905B - 3C905 - eepro 10/100 - ANA-62011 Of these, only the eepro 10/100 works. The others give me "??0: watchdog timeout" (where ?? is xl and sf respectively) upon startup and the network is unusable from there on.=20 Having read a ton of archived messages about this problem, none of them offered a solution, save one if_dc.c patch for an older version of the dc driver that was supposed to do something about it. Some said to try different PCI slots for the NIC's, and I did, but it didn't make any difference. But having read these archives, and a lot of other documentation, I discovered that the difference between these cards is that the 3C905's and the ANA-62011 has an onboard MII interface while the eepro 10/100 does not. Could there be something here to explain the problem? Other relevant information is that I'm running this on an Alpha (164LX), GENERIC kernel, and that I don't go trough a HUB (the cable is connected directly from one machine to the other, from NIC to NIC). Could someone provide me with tips and tricks to solve this? Even long shots will be appreciated.=20 - IT To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message