Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 08:07:24 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Idar Tollefsen <Idar.Tollefsen@baerum.kommune.no> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: RE: "??0: watchdog timeout"; MII related? Message-ID: <XFMail.010726080724.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <sb5fffde.073@mail.baerum.kommune.no>
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On 26-Jul-01 Idar Tollefsen wrote: > ----------------------------------------------------- > 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 I assume eepro 10/100 is the Intel etherexpress pro and uses the fxp(4) driver? If so, the card does indeed have an on-board MII interface, but older versions of the driver just don't use the miibus code. It sounds like a problem with your cards not getting interrupts for some reason, but I'm not sure. If you ask real nicely and provide dmesg excerpts and literal copies of the error messages, Bill Paul <wpaul@FreBSD.org> might be able to help you. > 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. > > 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. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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