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Date:      Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:15:15 -0500
From:      John_Fleming@compusa.com
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   problems with starfire nic.
Message-ID:  <OF3AADB12A.CE81C6F4-ON86256A87.00501C7A@compusa.com>

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I'm having problems getting starfire nics to work correctly. Useing GENERIC
i can't seem to force the nic to work without it dropping off the network.
When i does drop off the network it goes up and down every 2-3 seconds. I
have tried 2 different switchs (cisco and xylan) with both switchs set to
full-duplex on all ports, and nic set to 100 full. If i set the nics to
auto they do detect the correct media speed and duplex, but i get lots of
out errors (netstat -in). The host i'm ftping from and to are on the same
switch and same ip segment. Just to see if it would help i made a custom
kernel, and removed and nics not being used, usb*, and a few isa devices.
After that i was able to keep the card on the network with it forced to
full duplex, but i still get out put errors (also crc's).
I have 2 machines that do this with starfire nics. 1 clone P2-400, 1 compaq
1400r(i think that right) dual 500.

I will attach a dmesg to this email and a kernel config.

Copyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project.
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FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #1: Wed Jul 11 23:22:03 CDT 2001
    root@superfly.compusa.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/MY-KERNEL
Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
Timecounter "TSC"  frequency 300683270 Hz
CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (300.68-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x650  Stepping = 0
  Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
real memory  = 67108864 (65536K bytes)
avail memory = 61939712 (60488K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc035d000.
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
md0: Malloc disk
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
pcib1: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
isab0: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> port 0xf000-0xf00f at device 7.1 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
pci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> at 7.2 irq 11
chip1: <Intel 82371AB Power management controller> port 0x5000-0x500f at device 7.3 on pci0
pcib2: <DEC 21154 PCI-PCI bridge> at device 15.0 on pci0
pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib2
sf0: <Adaptec ANA-62022 10/100BaseTX> port 0xa000-0xa0ff mem 0xe6080000-0xe60fffff irq 12 at device 4.0 on pci2
sf0: Ethernet address: 00:00:d1:d9:82:37
miibus0: <MII bus> on sf0
ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
sf1: <Adaptec ANA-62022 10/100BaseTX> port 0xa400-0xa4ff mem 0xe6000000-0xe607ffff irq 11 at device 5.0 on pci2
sf1: Ethernet address: 00:00:d1:d9:82:38
miibus1: <MII bus> on sf1
ukphy1: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus1
ukphy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
pci0: <Cirrus Logic GD5430 SVGA controller> at 17.0
ahc0: <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter> port 0xb400-0xb4ff mem 0xeb000000-0xeb000fff irq 10 at device 19.0 on pci0
aic7880: Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs
fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
acd0: CDROM <40X CD-ROM> at ata0-master using PIO4
Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
da0: <QUANTUM FIREBALL ST4.3S 0F0C> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da0: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled
da0: 4136MB (8471232 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 527C)
uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> port 0xb000-0xb01f irq 11 at device 7.2 on pci0
usb0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered

KERNEL CONFIG.

#
# GENERIC -- Generic kernel configuration file for FreeBSD/i386
#
# For more information on this file, please read the handbook section on
# Kernel Configuration Files:
#
#    http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html
#
# The handbook is also available locally in /usr/share/doc/handbook
# if you've installed the doc distribution, otherwise always see the
# FreeBSD World Wide Web server (http://www.FreeBSD.org/) for the
# latest information.
#
# An exhaustive list of options and more detailed explanations of the
# device lines is also present in the ./LINT configuration file. If you are
# in doubt as to the purpose or necessity of a line, check first in LINT.
#
# $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC,v 1.246.2.24 2001/04/05 17:23:10 sos Exp $

machine        i386
#cpu      I386_CPU
#cpu      I486_CPU
#cpu      I586_CPU
cpu       I686_CPU
ident          GENERIC
maxusers  32

#makeoptions   DEBUG=-g       #Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols

options   MATH_EMULATE        #Support for x87 emulation
options   INET           #InterNETworking
options   INET6               #IPv6 communications protocols
options   FFS            #Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options   FFS_ROOT       #FFS usable as root device [keep this!]
options   SOFTUPDATES         #Enable FFS soft updates support
options   MFS            #Memory Filesystem
options   MD_ROOT             #MD is a potential root device
options   NFS            #Network Filesystem
options   NFS_ROOT       #NFS usable as root device, NFS required
options   MSDOSFS             #MSDOS Filesystem
options   CD9660              #ISO 9660 Filesystem
options   CD9660_ROOT         #CD-ROM usable as root, CD9660 required
options   PROCFS              #Process filesystem
options   COMPAT_43      #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!]
options   SCSI_DELAY=15000    #Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI
options   UCONSOLE       #Allow users to grab the console
options   USERCONFIG          #boot -c editor
options   VISUAL_USERCONFIG   #visual boot -c editor
options   KTRACE              #ktrace(1) support
options   SYSVSHM             #SYSV-style shared memory
options   SYSVMSG             #SYSV-style message queues
options   SYSVSEM             #SYSV-style semaphores
options   P1003_1B       #Posix P1003_1B real-time extensions
options   _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING
options        ICMP_BANDLIM        #Rate limit bad replies
options   KBD_INSTALL_CDEV    # install a CDEV entry in /dev

# To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed
#options  SMP            # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
#options  APIC_IO             # Symmetric (APIC) I/O

device         isa
#device        eisa
device         pci

# Floppy drives
device         fdc0 at isa? port IO_FD1 irq 6 drq 2
device         fd0  at fdc0 drive 0
device         fd1  at fdc0 drive 1

# ATA and ATAPI devices
device         ata0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14
device         ata1 at isa? port IO_WD2 irq 15
device         ata
device         atadisk             # ATA disk drives
device         atapicd             # ATAPI CDROM drives
device         atapifd             # ATAPI floppy drives
device         atapist             # ATAPI tape drives
options   ATA_STATIC_ID       #Static device numbering

# SCSI Controllers
device         ahb       # EISA AHA1742 family
device         ahc       # AHA2940 and onboard AIC7xxx devices
device         amd       # AMD 53C974 (Tekram DC-390(T))
device         isp       # Qlogic family
device         ncr       # NCR/Symbios Logic
device         sym       # NCR/Symbios Logic (newer chipsets)
options        SYM_SETUP_LP_PROBE_MAP=0x40
                    # Allow ncr to attach legacy NCR devices when
                    # both sym and ncr are configured

#device        adv0 at isa?
device         adw
#device        bt0  at isa?
#device        aha0 at isa?
#device        aic0 at isa?

device         ncv       # NCR 53C500
device         nsp       # Workbit Ninja SCSI-3
device         stg       # TMC 18C30/18C50

# SCSI peripherals
device         scbus          # SCSI bus (required)
device         da        # Direct Access (disks)
device         sa        # Sequential Access (tape etc)
device         cd        # CD
device         pass      # Passthrough device (direct SCSI access)

# RAID controllers interfaced to the SCSI subsystem
#device        asr       # DPT SmartRAID V, VI and Adaptec SCSI RAID
#device        dpt       # DPT Smartcache - See LINT for options!
#device        mly       # Mylex AcceleRAID/eXtremeRAID

# RAID controllers
#device        aac       # Adaptec FSA RAID, Dell PERC2/PERC3
#device        ida       # Compaq Smart RAID
#device        amr       # AMI MegaRAID
#device        mlx       # Mylex DAC960 family
#device        twe       # 3ware Escalade

# atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse
device         atkbdc0   at isa? port IO_KBD
device         atkbd0    at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1
device         psm0 at atkbdc? irq 12

device         vga0 at isa?

# splash screen/screen saver
pseudo-device  splash

# syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console
device         sc0  at isa? flags 0x100

# Enable this and PCVT_FREEBSD for pcvt vt220 compatible console driver
#device        vt0  at isa?
#options  XSERVER             # support for X server on a vt console
#options  FAT_CURSOR          # start with block cursor
# If you have a ThinkPAD, uncomment this along with the rest of the PCVT lines
#options  PCVT_SCANSET=2      # IBM keyboards are non-std

# Floating point support - do not disable.
device         npx0 at nexus? port IO_NPX irq 13

# Power management support (see LINT for more options)
#device        apm0    at nexus? disable flags 0x20 # Advanced Power Management

# PCCARD (PCMCIA) support
#device        card
#device        pcic0     at isa? irq 0 port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd0000
#device        pcic1     at isa? irq 0 port 0x3e2 iomem 0xd4000 disable

# Serial (COM) ports
#device        sio0 at isa? port IO_COM1 flags 0x10 irq 4
#device        sio1 at isa? port IO_COM2 irq 3
#device        sio2 at isa? disable port IO_COM3 irq 5
#device        sio3 at isa? disable port IO_COM4 irq 9

# Parallel port
#device        ppc0 at isa? irq 7
#device        ppbus          # Parallel port bus (required)
#device        lpt       # Printer
#device        plip      # TCP/IP over parallel
#device        ppi       # Parallel port interface device
#device        vpo       # Requires scbus and da


# PCI Ethernet NICs.
#device        de        # DEC/Intel DC21x4x (``Tulip'')
#device        fxp       # Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B (82557, 82558)
#device        tx        # SMC 9432TX (83c170 ``EPIC'')
#device        vx        # 3Com 3c590, 3c595 (``Vortex'')
#device        wx        # Intel Gigabit Ethernet Card (``Wiseman'')

# PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code.
# NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in order to use these NICs!
device         miibus         # MII bus support
#device        dc        # DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes
#device        pcn       # AMD Am79C79x PCI 10/100 NICs
#device        rl        # RealTek 8129/8139
device         sf        # Adaptec AIC-6915 (``Starfire'')
#device        sis       # Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900/SiS 7016
#device        ste       # Sundance ST201 (D-Link DFE-550TX)
#device        tl        # Texas Instruments ThunderLAN
#device        vr        # VIA Rhine, Rhine II
#device        wb        # Winbond W89C840F
#device        xl        # 3Com 3c90x (``Boomerang'', ``Cyclone'')

# ISA Ethernet NICs.
#device        ed0  at isa? port 0x280 irq 10 iomem 0xd8000
#device        ex
#device        ep
#device        fe0  at isa? port 0x300
# Xircom Ethernet
#device        xe
# PRISM I IEEE 802.11b wireless NIC.
#device        awi
# WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 wireless NICs. Note: the WaveLAN/IEEE really
# exists only as a PCMCIA device, so there is no ISA attachment needed
# and resources will always be dynamically assigned by the pccard code.
#device        wi
# Aironet 4500/4800 802.11 wireless NICs. Note: the declaration below will
# work for PCMCIA and PCI cards, as well as ISA cards set to ISA PnP
# mode (the factory default). If you set the switches on your ISA
# card for a manually chosen I/O address and IRQ, you must specify
# those parameters here.
#device        an
# The probe order of these is presently determined by i386/isa/isa_compat.c.
#device        ie0  at isa? port 0x300 irq 10 iomem 0xd0000
#device        le0  at isa? port 0x300 irq 5 iomem 0xd0000
#device        lnc0 at isa? port 0x280 irq 10 drq 0
#device        cs0  at isa? port 0x300
#device        sn0  at isa? port 0x300 irq 10

# Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocate.
pseudo-device  loop      # Network loopback
pseudo-device  ether          # Ethernet support
#pseudo-device sl   1    # Kernel SLIP
#pseudo-device ppp  1    # Kernel PPP
#pseudo-device tun       # Packet tunnel.
pseudo-device  pty       # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc)
pseudo-device  md        # Memory "disks"
#pseudo-device gif  4    # IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling
#pseudo-device faith     1    # IPv6-to-IPv4 relaying (translation)

# The `bpf' pseudo-device enables the Berkeley Packet Filter.
# Be aware of the administrative consequences of enabling this!
pseudo-device  bpf       #Berkeley packet filter

# USB support
#device        uhci      # UHCI PCI->USB interface
##device       ohci      # OHCI PCI->USB interface
#device        usb       # USB Bus (required)
#device        ugen      # Generic
#device        uhid      # "Human Interface Devices"
#device        ukbd      # Keyboard
#device        ulpt      # Printer
#device        umass          # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da
#device        ums       # Mouse
#device        uscanner  # Scanners
# USB Ethernet, requires mii
#device        aue       # ADMtek USB ethernet
#device        cue       # CATC USB ethernet
#device        kue       # Kawasaki LSI USB ethernet


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