Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 21:48:15 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: "David W . Chapman Jr ." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> Cc: Mats Dufberg <dufberg@nic-se.se>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any patch for fxp driver? Message-ID: <200106060148.f561mFn25570@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Jun 2001 14:22:09 CDT." <20010605142209.C15350@leviathan.inethouston.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.30.0106052105110.20223-100000@spider.nic-se.se> <20010605142209.C15350@leviathan.inethouston.net>
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> On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 09:18:17PM +0200, Mats Dufberg wrote: > > As have been reported in this list the driver for the fxp device is broken > > in 4.3-RELEASE and -*-STABLE. It stops with SCB timeout messages. Could > > anyone advice any patch that will solve the problem? > > > > fxp - Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B ethernet device driver > > PCI Fast Ethernet adapters based on the Intel i82557 ethernet chip. > > > > > > It is not currently broken and I don't believe it was in 4.3-RELEASE, > it broke about 3 weeks ago, but it has been fixed, do you have > PNPOS=YES in the bios? Another "failure" mode that I noticed with the new fxp driver is that sometimes auto-negotiation doesn't work. I fixed my problem by explicitly configuring the media type and mediaopts in rc.conf and all is happy (for me, anyway) again. This was with a fairly bizzare-o Motorola Pentium CompactPCI single board computer with an fxp intergrated LAN controller. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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