Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:20:46 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fxp driver causing lockup Message-ID: <199903190820.AAA04832@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:24:54 MST." <36F1D196.C7E58624@softweyr.com>
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> Mike, I saw something in the -chat archives where you were beating up > Brett Glass (always fun) w.r.t. problems with the NetFinity. You > mention the "initialising fxp0 hangs" bug. Do you think this might > have been the problem? Mine was on a Toshiba 7000S with on-board > EEPro 100+; it was failing during the attach due to not having bus > mastering turned on. Anyone's guess, but the symptoms match. > Do you know anyone at IBM that can give this patch a try on a NetFinity > with onboard EEPro 100 to see if it fixes the problem? If not, if they > are willing to ship me a system for a few weeks I'm willing to beat on > it until I get it working. Anyone with a Netfinity 3000 or 3500 with the onboard fxp is invited to try this; failing that I guess it's almost time to take another day down to San Mateo and go through their rack again. I wouldn't mind a better chance of supporting the AMD PC-NET PCI parts though; they use them too... -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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