From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 8 13:30:16 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA05677 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:30:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA05651; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:30:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00616; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:24:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199902082124.NAA00616@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Wes Peters cc: Xiaowei Yang , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ifconfig kills my machine In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Feb 1999 12:19:47 MST." <36BF38D3.A030A7B1@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 13:24:50 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Xiaowei Yang wrote: > > > > However, "ifconfig fxp0" killed the machine. I lost keyboard. I tried to > > uncomment the lines in rc.network and left only > > network_interfaces="lo0". Still , rebooting died at the ifconfig point. > > > > I donot know what caused the problem. I used > > /usr/obj/elf/usr/src/usr.sbin/config/config configured the kernel. Does > > it matter? > > > > I am will very grateful if somebody could give me a hint. > > I've seen this on a Toshiba Equium 7000S, with onboard fxp0. The first > DMA operation in the configuration of the chip never completes. I re- > installed 2.2.7 on that machine, since I didn't have time to investigate > then. If I ever get done with my "FPX" code at work (maybe this week, > if I'm lucky) I'll poke into this fxp problem. ;^) I've also seen this on a (significant) number of IBM systems. We could probably get FreeBSD certified on the NetFinity range if we can resolve this. -- \\ 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-questions" in the body of the message