Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:40:07 +1100 From: Andrew Reilly <andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org> To: Marian Hettwer <MH@kernel32.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, shih@math.jussieu.fr, JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br> Subject: Re: watchdog network card Message-ID: <20060328104007.GD87799@gurney.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <4427E3B1.3020704@kernel32.de> References: <20060327093011.GA21070@math.jussieu.fr> <4427B820.3000702@lipn.univ-paris13.fr> <20060327103720.GB21070@math.jussieu.fr> <200603270746.05169.joao@matik.com.br> <20060327110226.GC21070@math.jussieu.fr> <4427E3B1.3020704@kernel32.de>
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On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 03:08:01PM +0200, Marian Hettwer wrote: > Albert Shih wrote: > > Le 27/03/2006 ? 07:46:04-0300, JoaoBR a ?crit > > > > >>is your card in polling mode ? > > > > > > Well I don't known what's that mean. I just look the ifconfig's man...I > > just use default config, and I don't think I use poling mode. > > > polling is described in polling(4) --> man 4 polling That page points out that you need to re-compile your kernel with options DEVICE_POLLING, the OP should make sure that he does that, too. > > I don't understand : You think is better to put my card in polling mode or > > not ? > > > you can give it a try > ifconfig $interface polling > or > ifconfig $interface -polling > to disable polling... After the last rebuild on my amd64-x2 box, both the nve ethernet on the motherboard and the dc ethernet that I had been using to work around other problems in the nve driver stopped working in this way. DEVICE_POLLING and ifconfig...polling has got me going again. I thoroughly recommend it. Cheers, -- Andrew
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