From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 19 11:39:09 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4737D1065672 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:39:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from btillman99@yahoo.com) Received: from web36502.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web36502.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.85.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C3A508FC14 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:39:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 29569 invoked by uid 60001); 19 Feb 2010 11:39:08 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1266579548; bh=9Wx0y6AYH+uskqHlIsEl2dKfrhr1EynJykdD/UendQo=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=NuMxLw0LR8LacWEVVvJuY9B5VoehNUsHeQU7H44w9ooB+dDQIEGfXFNzRbXn9iFudYeSpfV035UjlPXdnkKDfeJvAW4oB7OpH1pTwyEX6swJ24AIil3lcKq96XZzIh1KxXPlvJBXEzLnpDrU7foAaNLqxEMBgRfxpMPDd4cN1CM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=Pt0D2b9WFmMiSUBL1OpUSwIZQzaeH81o+6kUxr9/g4jDedRVFDvTh3AjX7fKznNuEI8NvvZmozixcNLisWOHY1oxb9qixAou07vTJNg3tw7zKSgOhelUWp1jEsn0wEU1kL3g+pVCxg/zWz+ehg06SF4gEjD2v6laLqH2hM1PsUc=; Message-ID: <65460.28575.qm@web36502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: GvPFCNAVM1kzuUyfh_3NUeTsvxDV2e5Q2dgDcSx9Fa6eYkR8Uz3Q.GKS71pb59MGheSjeSNTowiL2xlYQg_pxii.jnDApjqYG6oZrXw8PEacnPCJaeMk4BQWnLmXGKOHrrtJ9G0snZkVqOmJ6zVmrU.eWNsQYMXCctvrKsPMT.4VtkbBKuNgGYo6h8.bzTu5p1jCEQSmjFrxLJq6NJcIO8rUz08yDOO1f6_EiUjY4r3R.PuL8F_dWY2389JToLjcyiVF1I4sRkoXlzjfJsDPKefE Received: from [98.242.237.166] by web36502.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:39:08 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/9.2.12 YahooMailWebService/0.8.100.260964 Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:39:08 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Tillman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4B6E95EA.6090009@infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Marvell Yukon LAN Adapters X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:39:09 -0000 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