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Date:      Thu, 09 Aug 2001 21:06:09 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Justin Sheehy <justin@iago.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fxp SCB timeout problems, anyone have a solution?
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20010809210138.03b53e40@192.168.0.12>
In-Reply-To: <x7u1zgg1o5.fsf@ra.iago.org>

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At 09:10 PM 8/9/2001 -0400, Justin Sheehy wrote:
>I am having a major problem with a FreeBSD-4.3 machine.  I dredged
>through the mailing list archives, and did not find any useful
>answers.  I am hopeful that someone here can help.

There is an updated driver for the fxp. It works well for me with the ET 
version of the onboard nic, but *not* the EM version.  Upgrade to -STABLE 
and you should hopefully be fine.



>The machine is currently running 4.3-RELEASE from a CD install.  After
>installing it, I shipped it away to a datacenter which is its intended
>long-term home.

Hmmm.... At one point, I was able to get the machine to work a little 
longer by limiting the amount of throughput via dummynet.  Try setting it 
to something like 1Mb in and out... Hopefully that will let you cvsup long 
enough to get the update.

...
>Jul 31 17:08:18 phl /kernel: fxp0: <Intel PLC 10/100 Ethernet> port 
>0xdf00-0xdf3f mem 0xff8ff000-0xff8fffff irq 11 at device 8.0 on pci1
>Jul 31 17:08:18 phl /kernel: fxp0: Ethernet address 00:03:47:a0:49:91

After reboot, if you have the ET version, it will look something like

fxp1: <Intel Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0xc400-0xc43f mem 0xd5101000-0xd5101fff 
irq 11 at device 8.0 on pci1
fxp1: Ethernet address 00:01:80:05:d2:67
inphy1: <i82562ET 10/100 media interface> on miibus1
inphy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto

if the phy says, EM, in my case anyways, its still unreliable. It doesnt 
lock up hard however like the old driver does.

         ---Mike




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