Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 13:24:50 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Xiaowei Yang <yxw@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ifconfig kills my machine Message-ID: <199902082124.NAA00616@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Feb 1999 12:19:47 MST." <36BF38D3.A030A7B1@softweyr.com>
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> Xiaowei Yang wrote: > > > > However, "ifconfig fxp0" killed the machine. I lost keyboard. I tried to > > uncomment the lines in rc.network and left only > > network_interfaces="lo0". Still , rebooting died at the ifconfig point. > > > > I donot know what caused the problem. I used > > /usr/obj/elf/usr/src/usr.sbin/config/config configured the kernel. Does > > it matter? > > > > I am will very grateful if somebody could give me a hint. > > I've seen this on a Toshiba Equium 7000S, with onboard fxp0. The first > DMA operation in the configuration of the chip never completes. I re- > installed 2.2.7 on that machine, since I didn't have time to investigate > then. If I ever get done with my "FPX" code at work (maybe this week, > if I'm lucky) I'll poke into this fxp problem. ;^) I've also seen this on a (significant) number of IBM systems. We could probably get FreeBSD certified on the NetFinity range if we can resolve this. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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