Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 19:00:10 +0100 From: Alex <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: Roman <roma@freebsdm.homeunix.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-5.0 xl0 problem Message-ID: <4721653916.20030128190010@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030127082145.GE2331@freebsdm.homeunix.org> References: <20030127082145.GE2331@freebsdm.homeunix.org>
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Dear/Beste Roman, Monday, January 27, 2003, 9:21:45 AM, you wrote: > I currently installed FreeBSD-5.0 and having problem configuring xl > card. Dmesg shows that kernel picks it up: > xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xe400-0xe47f mem > 0xe0000000-0xe000007f irq 11 at device 9.0 on pci0 > xl0: Ethernet address: 00:50:da:7d:f1:c3 > after i do "ifconfig xl0 up" it seems like the card shuts down, the > link indicator on the hub as well as on the card itself goes blank... > Here is ifconfig before i do anything: > xl0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM> > ether 00:50:da:7d:f1:c3 > media: Ethernet 100baseTX <hw-loopback> (100baseTX > <full-duplex>) > status: active > lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 > inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 > inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 > ifconfig after "ifconfig xl0 up": > xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM> > inet6 fe80::250:daff:fe7d:f1c3%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > ether 00:50:da:7d:f1:c3 > media: Ethernet 100baseTX <hw-loopback> (none) > lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 > inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 > inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 > With 4.7 there is no such problem. Is there is a way to load "old" > (4.7) xl driver? > Thank you. > roman. You could try to take the source files for the xl driver from 4.7 and put them with the 5.0 source than follow a normal make world (from the handbook) There located in /usr/src/sys/modules/xl and /usr/src/sys/pci (if_xl.c opt_bdg.h device_if.h bus_if.h pci_if.h). It would be nice if you checked the bugs pages and send a PR if its missing. From Mat: > I also use 3com's with the xl driver and I have no such issues: > > xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xe400-0xe47f mem 0xea000000- > 0xea00007f irq 12 at device 15.0 on pci0 > xl0: Ethernet address: 00:a0:24:ac:e1:b4 > xl1: <3Com 3c905-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xe800-0xe83f irq 11 at device > 17.0 on pci0 > xl1: Ethernet address: 00:60:08:6d:1e:3b > > Both are configured and working first on FreeBSD5.0-RELEASE and now on 5.0- > CURRENT after I cvsup'd over the weekend. > > The only problems I have seen which I did not see with 4.x-STABLE was the > following errors: > > xl1: transmission error: 90 > xl1: tx underrun, increasing tx start threshold to 120 bytes > > This occured as I was transferring a large amount of data over a samba mount, > but I have not seen it since and the card is still working normally. I also got a xl1 card. I got the same errors when i was running 4.5 or 4.4 (i don't remember that well). All was ok when i updated later. -- Best regards/Met vriendelijke groet, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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