From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 17 02:59:28 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B542D16A407 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:59:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from sccrmhc14.comcast.net (sccrmhc14.comcast.net [204.127.200.84]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C5F513C442 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:59:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from icarus.home.lan (c-71-198-0-135.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[71.198.0.135]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc14) with ESMTP id <2007011702592701400oapuee>; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:59:27 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5CA651FA037; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:59:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:59:27 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Jack Vogel Message-ID: <20070117025927.GA25196@icarus.home.lan> Mail-Followup-To: Jack Vogel , Mike Andrews , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20070116123019.I46509@bit0.com> <2a41acea0701161053s67c6100cqf03284626116f04c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0701161053s67c6100cqf03284626116f04c@mail.gmail.com> X-PGP-Key: http://jdc.parodius.com/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Mike Andrews Subject: Re: 6.2-RELEASE em0 watchdog timeouts -- sometimes (w/ partial workaround) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:59:28 -0000 On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:53:04AM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: > There are some management related issues with this NIC, first if you > have not done so make a DOS bootable device, and run this app I > am enclosing, it fixes the prom setting that is wrong on some devices. > It will do no harm, and it may solve things. Jack, Can you expand on what this application changes in the PROM? I have an Intel motherboard which suffers from similar to what the OP has reported (em0 watchdog timeouts), and was curious what the utility does before firing up the board and trying it. Others may be curious to know, too. Thanks, as always. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |