Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 13:37:02 -0700 (PDT) From: John Fitzgibbon <fitz@joy.jfitz.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, mike@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/16214: Driver for Intel EtherExpress 16 is unreliable, (if_ie.c) Message-ID: <200108032037.f73Kb2v37238@joy.jfitz.com>
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From: "John Fitzgibbon" <fitz@jfitz.com> To: <mike@FreeBSD.org>; <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: i386/16214: Driver for Intel EtherExpress 16 is unreliable, (if_ie.c) Date: Friday, August 03, 2001 1:13 PM > Does this problem still occur in newer versions of FreeBSD, > such as 4.3-RELEASE? Yes. I tested with a number of different cards/configs. The card locks up randomly, (but pretty consistently), with versions from 3.4 through 4.4_PRERELEASE. Also, as of 4.2 the ie driver is no longer compiled into the startup probe sequence. However, the news is not all bad. The following hack fixes the ie driver for all configurations I've tested: http://63.194.217.126/tips/if_ie.c.patch (The comments give an idea of what's going on.) This patch puts ie back in the probe sequence: http://63.194.217.126/tips/isa_compat.h.patch I used this patch on a DSL firewall/gateway for about a year with various flavors of FreeBSD without a single failure. I don't normally use the ie cards any more, but I transferred gigs of data on a test machine over the last week with the latest releases, (4.3_RELEASE and 4.3_STABLE/4.4_PRERELEASE), without any problems. I guess this patch got rejected or lost in the noise when I first submitted it over a year ago. Fitz. ----- Original Message ----- From: <mike@FreeBSD.org> To: <fitz@jfitz.com>; <mike@FreeBSD.org>; <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 11:48 AM Subject: Re: i386/16214: Driver for Intel EtherExpress 16 is unreliable, (if_ie.c) > Synopsis: Driver for Intel EtherExpress 16 is unreliable, (if_ie.c) > > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback > State-Changed-By: mike > State-Changed-When: Sat Jul 21 11:47:51 PDT 2001 > State-Changed-Why: > > Does this problem still occur in newer versions of FreeBSD, > such as 4.3-RELEASE? > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16214 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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