Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 15:05:11 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: "John W. DeBoskey" <jwd@unx.sas.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-970621-SNAP & fxp0 failure Message-ID: <199707092205.PAA24480@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Jul 1997 16:20:07 EDT." <199707092020.AA26603@iluvatar.unx.sas.com>
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>Hi, > > I've just install the 3.0-970621-SNAP. I have an intel 10/100 >card: > >fxp0: <Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B Ethernet> > rev 0x01 int a irq 15 on pci0.17.0 > > when I type the following command in, the machine totally and >completely freezes up. > > ifconfig fxp0 inet 10.26.1.45 netmask 0xffff0000 > >I must poweroff the machine to recover. > > > If I swap the intel card out for a 3com, the following >works just fine: > >vx0: <3COM 3C905 Fast Etherlink XL PCI> rev 0x00 int a irq 14 on pci1.9.0 > >ifconfig vx0 inet 10.26.1.45 netmask 0xffff0000 > > There are no messages being logged to the console, or /var/log/*. > > Does anyone have any ideas? I'm more than happy to try to >debug this problem if someone can point me in the right direction. Looks like an interrupt problem. Many systems have the secondary IDE controller mapped to using irq15, so perhaps that is the problem. Try moving the Intel card to a physically different slot - this should cause the PCI BIOS to assign a different interrupt. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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