Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:08:39 -0300 From: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@FreeBSD.org> To: Jon Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5-STABLE, MSI KT880 , fxp and SCB timeouts Message-ID: <20050225000901.82687.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> In-Reply-To: <421DF86A.7010807@alumni.rice.edu> References: <20050224020702.51073.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> <421D46E0.6090001@alumni.rice.edu> <20050224033053.GN253@dan.emsphone.com> <421D4B2B.9020702@alumni.rice.edu> <20050224102018.79979.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> <421DF86A.7010807@alumni.rice.edu>
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On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:52:52AM -0600, Jon Noack wrote: > Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:33:41PM -0600, Jon Noack wrote: > >>On 02/23/05 21:30, Dan Nelson wrote: > >>>In the last episode (Feb 23), Jon Noack said: > >>>>On 02/23/05 20:06, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote: > >>>>>My last motherboard burned down to ashes so I got myself a brand > >>>>>(after 2 weeks) new MSI KT880. I am getting some weird results. > >>>>> > >>>>>1) fxp intel etherxpress 10/100 network cards report SCB timeout > >>>>>as well as achieving ridiculously low transfer rates of 600 > >>>>>Bytes/second. Well, I got 10 KBytes/sec once but that does not count > >>>>>since a side box gets more than 50KB/s ;-) on the same hub. Oh, I've > >>>>>already switched hub ports, rj45 cables and fxp cards. > >>>> > >>>>Duplex mismatch? You say "hub" and not "switch", so you might need > >>>>to force the card to half-duplex. Oddly enough, the fxp(4) man page > >>>>doesn't include half-duplex as a media option. Surely it supports > >>>>it... > > > >Actually, it is a 5 port switch (10/100 TX). Any thoughts? I can > >provide as much information as necessary. By the way, another > >computer using exactly a fxp connected to the same switch works > >nicely. > > Try forcing full-duplex? The output of "ifconfig" would also be helpful > (you can sanitize IP and MAC addresses)? IP/MAC addresses and netmasks sanitized fxp0: flags=19843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,LINK0,MULTICAST,POLLING> mtu 1500 options=4b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,POLLING> inet 10.0.0.2 netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast 10.0.0.127 inet 10.0.0.3 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 10.0.0.3 ether 00:ff:00:ff:00:ff media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 -- Mario S F Ferreira - DF - Brazil - "I guess this is a signature." feature, n: a documented bug | bug, n: an undocumented feature
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