Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:39:08 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Marvell Yukon LAN Adapters Message-ID: <65460.28575.qm@web36502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <4B6E95EA.6090009@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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I just built a screaming machine with X58i motherboard, i7 CPU and 12 GB RA= M. But alas, besides problems with loading Windows on it I seemed to have h= it a snag with FreeBSD as well.=A0 The motherboard has two built-in Gigabyte Ethernet ports which FreeBSD-8.0-= STABLE-2010002-amd64 identifies as msk0 and msk1. All seems well when the m= achine boots and I get an IP address from my dhcp server. I can even make a= connection via ftp or ping something but it won't be long before I start s= eeing Tx descriptor error messages and then watchdog timeout message for th= e NIC which is running. I've tried with both NIC's, swapped out cables, cha= nged switches, etc...but this keeps happening. My LAN runs on 10/100 switches, I don't have the $$ to upgrade my switches = and NICs to Gigabyte yet. But it's my understanding that these NIC's will a= uto-detect the speed of my LAN and adjust accordingly, or maybe not. Some google searches show this to be a wide spread problem and indicate tha= t the FreeBSD drivers were fixed sometime in Decemnber or January. So if I = installed the lastest STABLE code I'm not sure why this is happening. Anyone have some advice on this?=0A=0A=0A
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