Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 13:59:45 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Freddie Cash <fjwcash+freebsd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't get if_txp(4) to attach to a 3CR990B-TXM NIC Message-ID: <20070609045945.GC32123@cdnetworks.co.kr> In-Reply-To: <200706080913.37450.fjwcash%2Bfreebsd@gmail.com> References: <200706080913.37450.fjwcash%2Bfreebsd@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:13:37AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> I'm having a bit of an issue getting a 3CR990B-TXM NIC detected and
> usable. Just wondering if anyone knows of any issues with this NIC
> chipset and/or with the motherboard chipset.
>
> The motherboard is a Biostar GeForce 6100 AM2 using an nVidia nForce 410
> chipset and nVidia GeForce 6100 vide chipset.
>
> I've tried FreeBSD 6.1, 6.2, 6-STABLE (from Wed), and 7-CURRENT (from Thu)
> on this system. Everything installs nicely, everything on the board is
> detected correctly and usable. It's just the PCI NIC that doesn't work.
>
> If I compile a custom kernel without any network drivers in it, and then
> kldload if_txp, the following appears (same message on all 4 versions):
>
> txp0: <3Com 3cR990B-TXM Etherlink with 3XP Processor> port 0xbc00-0xbc7f
> mem 0xfdcff000-0xfdcff07f irq 16 at device 8.0 on pci3
> txp0: not waiting for boot
> device_attach: txp0 attach returned -1
>
Would you try attached path?
It wouldn't fix your issue but it will handle failure of contigmalloc
as expected.
> If I reboot and load if_nve (on 6.2 and 6-stable), then I get:
> nve0: <NVIDIA nForce MCP13 Networking Adapter> port 0xdc00-0xdc07 mem
> 0xfe02d000-0xfe02dfff irq 22 at device 20.0 on pci0
> nve0: Ethernet address 00:19:21:37:d5:60
>
> Followed by the above messages for txp0 (it seems to detect and load
> if_txp automativally when loading if_nve).
>
> I've updated the BIOS on the motherboard. I've tried different PCI slots
> on the motherboard. Nothing changes. The "not waiting for boot" message
> keeps appearing.
>
> Attached are dmesg output from:
> 6.1-RELEASE GENERIC kernel dmesg_6.1.txt
> 6.2-RELEASE GENERIC kernel dmesg_6.2.txt
> 6.2-RELEASE GENERIC kernel verbose boot dmesg_6.2_verbose.txt
> 6-STABLE GENERIC kernel dmesg_6_generic.txt
> 6-STABLE TEST kernel (no NIC drivers) dmesg_6_custom.txt
> 7-CURRENT GENERIC kernel dmesg_7_generic.txt
> 7-CURRENT TEST kernel (no NIC drivers) dmesg_7_custom.txt
>
> I've looked through the cvsweb entries for txp and didn't see anything
> related to this issue. Reading the man page for if_txp(4) doesn't show
> anything about this error. I tried reading the source, but C is pretty
> much Greek to me.
>
> Everything I've read online says this NIC should work, and other are using
> it successfully. My gut feeling is that it's something to do with the
> motherboard chipset and the way it detects the NIC. But I could be way
> off.
>
> (As a test, I popped in a Kanotix LiveCD and the 3Com NIC is detected and
> usable, so it's [hopefully] not a defective NIC.)
>
> Anyone have any suggestions? Comments? Methods to destroy the NIC as an
> act of defiance? :)
>
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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
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===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/dev/txp/if_txp.c,v
retrieving revision 1.44
diff -u -r1.44 if_txp.c
--- if_txp.c 4 Mar 2007 03:38:08 -0000 1.44
+++ if_txp.c 9 Jun 2007 04:56:59 -0000
@@ -264,6 +264,11 @@
sc->sc_fwbuf = contigmalloc(32768, M_DEVBUF,
M_NOWAIT, 0, 0xffffffff, PAGE_SIZE, 0);
+ if (sc->sc_fwbuf == NULL) {
+ device_printf(dev, "no memory for firmware\n");
+ error = ENXIO;
+ goto fail;
+ }
error = txp_download_fw(sc);
contigfree(sc->sc_fwbuf, 32768, M_DEVBUF);
sc->sc_fwbuf = NULL;
@@ -273,6 +278,11 @@
sc->sc_ldata = contigmalloc(sizeof(struct txp_ldata), M_DEVBUF,
M_NOWAIT, 0, 0xffffffff, PAGE_SIZE, 0);
+ if (sc->sc_ldata == NULL) {
+ device_printf(dev, "no memory for descriptor ring\n");
+ error = ENXIO;
+ goto fail;
+ }
bzero(sc->sc_ldata, sizeof(struct txp_ldata));
if (txp_alloc_rings(sc)) {
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