From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 25 12:04:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA04957 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 12:04:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@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 MAA04950 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 12:04:56 -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 MAA01916; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 12:00:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811252000.MAA01916@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: eculp@MexComUSA.net cc: Mike Smith , jabc@webwizard.org.mx, FreeBSD-Current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM Netfinity 3500 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:55:43 CST." <365C60BF.C46E19C2@webwizard.org.mx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 12:00:44 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Mike Smith wrote: > > > > I am trying to install current on an IBM Netfinity 3500 PII-266 with > > > everything on the motherboard. Adaptec SCSI, sound and an fxp 10/100 > > > ethernet. Sounds good and everything works until I try to do an > > > ifconfig to set up the fxp0 interface. I can list it , change the > > > media, change mediaopt but when I put > > > > > > # ifconfig fxp0 inet myip netmask mymask > > > > > > and hit return, it dies. I don't even get to see my carriage return > > > :-) I'm stumped. I even disabled it with BIOS and put a physical card > > > in and it did the same. > > > > > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > > > This is noted in the release notes for 3.0-RELEASE; I experienced it at > > the IBM test centre here. I don't know what causes it; it looks like an > > interrupt lock or something similar. > > > > The short answer is - don't try to use the onboard ethernet. > > > > Thank you. I disabled (BIOS) the onboard and installed a seperate card and > had the same problem. Maybe I should look for a jumper? I don't know. You might want to talk to David Greenman about this one; he might have some ideas. You might also want to send the 'mptable' output to the SMP folks; they may have some ideas about interrupt routing that might shed some light on the situation. If you have time to tinker with the machine at all, it'd be very educational to add some debugging to the PCI interrupt handling code to see what's actually going on. A good start would be the interrupt handler for the 'fxp' device. -- \\ 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-current" in the body of the message