From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 4 17:35:23 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76670106567B for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 17:35:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from royce@alaska.net) Received: from iris.acsalaska.net (iris.acsalaska.net [209.112.173.229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A788FC1B for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 17:35:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from royce@alaska.net) Received: from [10.0.102.101] (209-112-156-40-adslb0fh.acsalaska.net [209.112.156.40]) by iris.acsalaska.net (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m74HZMeD047522; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 09:35:22 -0800 (AKDT) (envelope-from royce@alaska.net) Message-ID: <48973DD9.20303@alaska.net> Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:35:21 -0800 From: Royce Williams User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080708 Thunderbird/2.0.0.16 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin , Jack Vogel References: <20080801142005.473c17ca@zelda.local> <20080801154208.W6085@fledge.watson.org> <2a41acea0808010924u22603c61p10e47237fad5b6fb@mail.gmail.com> <20080802064727.042d5e3d@web.de> <2a41acea0808021034g588fdc77w50797f473e8809b0@mail.gmail.com> <20080804113448.0a4b3991@zelda.local> <20080804102307.GA28928@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20080804125138.59ed0252@zelda.local> <20080804174458.4dda8369@zelda.local> <2a41acea0808041018nc60b3uf53d2e898a73d9a9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0808041018nc60b3uf53d2e898a73d9a9@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 OpenPGP: url=http://www.tycho.org/royce/royce@alaska.net.asc X-Face: ">19[ShfDD9'g", GrH$'v:=qBVZdg.kXSBR6*ZC$am:D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ACS-Spam-Status: no X-ACS-Scanned-By: MD 2.63; SA 3.2.4; spamdefang 1.122 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:35:23 -0000 Jack Vogel wrote, on 8/4/2008 9:18 AM: > The focus here on the laptop distracted me, but someone else at work > reminded me. Its very important that you run the EEPROM fix for > the 82573 that i posted a long while back, search in email archive > for it. Its a DOS executable that will patch your EEPROM. > > I am not sure if the Lenova's need it, but get it, run it, and then > see if your problem goes away. Martin, there's also a link to it from Jeremy's "Commonly Reported Issues" page: http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues Look for "DOS-based EEPROM". Jack, is this issue the same one that is documented here? http://e1000.sourceforge.net/doku.php?id=known_issues#v_l_e_tx_unit_hang_messages ... and addressed by this script? http://e1000.sourceforge.net/doku.php?id=tx_unit_hang If so, the script could be used without booting from a DOS disk. If this is unrelated or is an unsafe way to apply this fix, that would be handy to know. Royce -- Royce D. Williams - http://royce.ws/ A finished person is a boring person. - Anna Quindlen