Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 06:06:34 -0500 From: Greg Putrich <gregp@n0qds.org> To: "Matthew Rezny" <mrezny@umr.edu> Cc: "net@freebsd.org" <net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Intel Gigabit NIC problem Message-ID: <20010404110634.224AFA5@skeezix.n0qds.org> In-Reply-To: <200104040849.DAA21587@mrelay.cc.umr.edu>
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I had the exact same problem with FreeBSD 4.1.1 and 4.2. It seems that
Intel changed the chipset (as you saw) and now it doesn't work quite
right. I gave up and got a 3Com gigabit ethernet NIC and that one is
working fine. The Intel card is sitting in it's box right now.
Greg
On Wednesday, April 4, 2001, at 02:49 , Matthew Rezny wrote:
> I'm posting this to a few lists that I hope I might get some info from.
>
> I have been using the fxp driver for quite a while with good results,
> so when it came time to get some gigabit stuff I
> looked and saw the wx driver. I decided it would be convenient to stick
> with Intel for several reasons. So now I have a
> handful of Compaq NC3131 boards with NC6132 modules.
>
> The NC3131 is a 64bit PCI card with a DEC 21154 (later revs have a chip
> stamped Intel but its id is the same as the
> DEC) PCI bridge and a couple Intel 82558 chips. It also has an
> expansion connector. The NC6132 module plugs onto
> this card to add a gigabit fiber port. The docs say its an Intel 82542
> chip, though the actual chip on the boards are
> stamped LSI.
>
> I put them in a few machines here. A couple are x86 boxes with Windows
> 2000 and/or Linux, for which the Intel drivers
> work and they interconnect fine. The other is an Alpha running FreeBSD
> 4.2. The fxp and wx drivers load fine, but I have
> problems when I connect the gigabit port to another one of the
> machines. The FreeBSD machine repeated prints
> "wx0: receive sequence error" while the other machine is overwhelmed
> with 100% kernel/system CPU usage such
> that its barely responsive.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what's going on, if there's any hope of
> fixing this, and what the solution would be?
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