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Date:      Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:06:30 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Where do MSI quirks belong?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20061120160630.jdp@polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0611201602m6cf8d983lb4699bb1037efcdc@mail.gmail.com>

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On 21-Nov-2006 Jack Vogel wrote:
> On 11/20/06, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> wrote:
>> Yes, it's the 82546EB that's on the motherboard.  When MSI is
>> enabled and I try to do anything with its network interfaces, the
>> system hangs solid (won't even echo console keystrokes) at least
>> half the time.  When it doesn't hang, I get TX watchdog timeouts on
>> both interfaces.  It works perfectly if I disable MSI.
> 
> I'll look into this. I have 546 NICs that aren't LOMs, I can check those on
> a MB that I know supports MSI, and from there see if I can find the Tyan
> or something that has that chipset and that LOM.

Hey, thanks!

> Its a short week and I'm busy with some other projects, so be patient
> please :)

No problem at all.  I'm just running with MSI disabled for now.

John



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