Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 06:02:20 -0600 (CST) From: George Vagner <vagner@ti.com> To: Scott Mitchell <s.mitchell@computer.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ie driver flakes out in 2.2.5 Message-ID: <199801201202.GAA21066@epcot.spdc.ti.com>
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I have the same problem, i am glad someone figured out how to fix it. At 11:50 AM 1/20/98 +0000, you wrote: >Dear all, > >Finally got around to upgrading to 2.2.5 (from 2.2.2) over the >weekend. Everything seems to be fine *except* that my Intel >EtherExpress 16 (on ie0) has suddenly stopped working. It appears to >be transmitting OK -- if I ping the Win95 box on the other end of the >wire, the transmit light on the Win95 NIC blinks, so I guess it is >sending back the echo response. But it never makes it back to the >BSD box. Likewise pinging from Win95->FreeBSD shows packets going >out, but nothing ever comes back. A tcpdump on ie0 backs this up: >outgoing packets are logged, but nothing ever comes in. > >So I boot into DOS, run the Intel diagnostics, everything comes back >clean. Then I think, maybe it's in my kernel config, so I boot the >2.2.5 GENERIC kernel from the CD. Still no luck. On a hunch, I >fired up the 2.2.2 GENERIC kernel, et voila! Everyone can ping each >other again. Very peculiar. > >Diff shows quite a few changes in /sys/i386/isa/if_ie.c between 2.2.2 >and 2.2.5. I built another kernel with the 2.2.2 if_ie.c, and things >seem to be working again, perhaps a little slower than before. > >Has anyone else experienced this problem? I couldn't find any >mention of it in the mailing list or PR archives. If there is an >easy fix (other than what I have already done) then fine, but this >board is gone as soon as I get my loaned-out SMC card back, so I >don't really want to get into the source myself. > >Haven't submitted a PR on this yet, but will do so if I don't get any >positive responses. > >Many TIA, > > Scott > > > Laszlo Vagner Texas Instruments Email:vagner@NOSPAM.ti.com Pg. 598-5217 Wk. 995-4297
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