Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 03:05:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: kern/44202: -stable rp driver does not work with multiple rp cards. Message-ID: <200210120705.g9C75dMY000487@synapse.biglist.com>
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>Number: 44202 >Category: kern >Synopsis: -stable rp driver does not work with multiple rp cards. >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Oct 18 00:10:03 PDT 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Charles Sprickman >Release: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD synapse.fasttrackmonkey.com 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #3: Fri Oct 11 22:26:54 EDT 2002 spork@synapse.fasttrackmonkey.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SYNAPSE i386 >Description: Installing a single multiport Comtrol RocketPort controller (in this case a PCI-8J) everything is fine. If you install two of these cards, they are both probed/detected at boot, but only rp0 functions. I have elminated cabling problems, term software problems (cu, kermit, minicom tested) and hopefully operator error. Additionally testing with a backported -current driver shows that both cards function (see below). The -stable driver also generates warnings about "old style compatibility shims" and "WARNING: "rp" is usurping "rp"'s cdevsw[]". >How-To-Repeat: Install multiple RocketPort PCI cards. >Fix: I'm not a coder, but I found the following backport of the -current driver: http://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/rp.tgz which allows both cards to work. It seems to have it's own problems however, as it produces spurious errors in the data passing through the port; the errors are serious enough to preclude use of this driver. It's also only available as a kld. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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