Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:03:36 -0400 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Ian Freislich <ianf@clue.co.za> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: msk(4) issues Message-ID: <20080917190336.GA66407@zim.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: <E1KfsD7-0001EE-LC@clue.co.za> References: <E1KfsD7-0001EE-LC@clue.co.za>
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2008, Ian Freislich wrote: > Hi > > I'm having an issue with the msk hardware in my laptop. It stops > transmitting or recieving sometimes, always triggered by periods > of intense network load. > > Sep 16 18:39:31 apple kernel: msk0: watchdog timeout (missed Tx interrupts) -- recovering > Sep 16 18:40:35 apple kernel: msk0: watchdog timeout (missed Tx interrupts) -- recovering > Sep 16 18:41:41 apple kernel: msk0: watchdog timeout (missed Tx interrupts) -- recovering > > But it never recovers. I have the same problem. Disabling MSI reduces the frequency with which it occurs from once a day to once a month or so. You can recover the card without rebooting by loading the msk driver as a kld, then unloading and reloading it to reset the card. Of course this is a hack, but I haven't bothered to look into anything better yet.
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