From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 31 06:19:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7849D16A4BF; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 06:19:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub02.unibe.ch (mailhub02.unibe.ch [130.92.9.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17ABC43FEC; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 06:19:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roth@iam.unibe.ch) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhub02.unibe.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id B392976B87; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:19:01 +0200 (MEST) Received: from mailhub02.unibe.ch ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailhub02 [127.0.0.1:10024]) (amavisd-new) with LMTP id 25275-01-45; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:19:01 +0200 (MEST) Received: from asterix.unibe.ch (asterix.unibe.ch [130.92.64.4]) by mailhub02.unibe.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB39876B81; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:19:00 +0200 (MEST) Received: from speedy.unibe.ch (speedy [130.92.64.35]) by asterix.unibe.ch (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h7VDJ0K17885; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:19:00 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from roth@localhost) by speedy.unibe.ch (8.11.6+Sun/8.10.2) id h7VDJ0600909; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:19:00 +0200 (MEST) Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:19:00 +0200 From: Tobias Roth To: Andreas Klemm Message-ID: <20030831131900.GA890@speedy.unibe.ch> References: <20030831115549.GA65846@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030831115549.GA65846@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: SunOS speedy 5.8 Generic_108528-16 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80 X-Virus-checked: by University of Berne cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fxp0: device timeout in -current from 31.8. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 13:19:04 -0000 On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 01:55:49PM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote: > I tried to install FreeBSD 5.1-current from 30.07. and 31.08 > on my wifes machine. Unluckily I experience problems with the > fxp driver. > > On google I found a similar report from June 3rd. > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-June/004739.html > > What I tried: since USB and fxp driver shared the same IRQ I > disabled USB in the BIOS and made sure, that the NIC has an > IRQ of its own, but still no success. i had those problems on my IBM T30 and found two ways to solve (circumvent?) them: 1) removing devices from the kernel until there were enough free irqs that things worked out together with the irq assigning the bios does. 2) play with the bios irq settings until the irq distribution was right and all my devices were working at the same time. it probably will not help you but here you find the irq settings that worked for me (under IBM T30): http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ These problems with fxp0 timeouts started for me with the transition from 5.0 to 5.1 RELEASE. It is somewhat difficult to do a diagnosis of the problem, as i also did a bios upgrade during that time and other people report they have no problems with similar hardware (although I suspect different kernel configs here). greets, t.