Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 06:59:09 -0500 (EST) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> To: bcsfd204@twcny.rr.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing XL0 and USB printer after upgrade Message-ID: <20040210065645.M91658@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> In-Reply-To: <2af11a2b28c9.2b28c92af11a@nyroc.rr.com> References: <2af11a2b28c9.2b28c92af11a@nyroc.rr.com>
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 bcsfd204@twcny.rr.com wrote: > I upgraded two systems over the weekend (2/6-7/04). I came up from a 5.1-CURRENT level from around October, 2003. Both are Tyan dual AMD processor systems with built in XL class ethernet cardss. I reviewed UPDATING and I believe I followed the instructions for the multi-terabyte changes. The desktop kernel and world went without much of a problem (except nautilus keeps crashing on a segment fault. I think I have to upgrade Gnome but I was going to do that later.) > > I then went to upgrade the server. When I finished booting the machine, XL0 and my USB attached printer were not recognized (present). > > IFCONFIG does not show XL0 and ls /dev does not show my USB printer. > > I played with the kernel config (the two machines are almost identical (currently defined but disabled SCSI controller in the server machine)) I also tried SCHED_ULE and SCHED_4BSD and it did not seem to change anything. > > What I am noticing for the printer is, I get most of the probe messages but then I start getting the messages about the filesystems being clean and root being mounted. During this portion of the boot, I get messages about the USB hardware being probed. > > It's almost like the hardware probing is not done yet before the kernel startes to mount the filesystems and begin initialization. (If I mangled the process here I'm sorry. I'm trying to describe what the external symptoms look like.) > > When I review DMESG output, there is nothing present for the XL-class ethernet interfaces. I also tried adding a VX-class card I had in the closet but this is not detected either. > > At the moment, I'm less concerned about the printer. I'm going nowhere with this server box if I cannot get it back on the wire. I forgot to ask in my last email, does 'pciconf -vl' show your network device? Is it prefixed by noneX@pci...? Regards, Andy > Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > > Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ >
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