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Date:      Wed, 18 Nov 1998 04:11:33 +0000
From:      Rob Snow <rsnow@lgc.com>
To:        Wes Peters <wpeters@xylan.com>
Cc:        dg@root.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fxp0 vs. 3.0 -- more info
Message-ID:  <365248F5.30A1691@lgc.com>
References:  <199811172256.OAA00813@root.com> <3651FF32.8684FC93@xylan.com>

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Wes,

Just for grins, try turning off write combining in BIOS and see what happens.  I had
a problem that appeared to be fxp and that fixed it.  Now, I am on a SMP box, but it
might be worth a shot.

-Rob

Wes Peters wrote:

> David Greenman wrote:
> >
> > >>    I'm not aware of any problems with the fxp driver in 3.x. I have a system
> > >> here with the same rev 5 82558 chip, on the motherboard, that you have there
> > >> and it works fine with 3.x.
> > >
> > >Can I tickle the fxp driver to me a little more verbose when I use the
> > >ifconfig command?  It would be useful to see what it thinks it's doing
> > >on the way to hanging the system.
> >
> >    Sure you can - you don't need my permission. :-)
> >    ...but you'll need to add some kernel printfs to the driver code.
>
> or go learn how to use the kernel debugger finally, huh?
>
> Maybe I'll just put 2.2.6 back on it and get on with my work.
>
> --
> Wes Peters                                          Who's going to save you
> Principal Engineer                                   When you're a slave to
> Xylan Corporation                              A diamond as big as the Ritz
> wpeters@xylan.com                                          -- Jimmy Buffett
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