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Date:      Sat, 05 Apr 2003 21:32:29 -0300
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: fxp breakage
Message-ID:  <3E8F759D.6050902@newsguy.com>
In-Reply-To: <3E8EFF73.90900@newsguy.com>
References:  <EE3D3FBAFFCAED448C21C398FDAD91AC0107DF@EBE1.gc.nat> <20030405002444.GR1750@elvis.mu.org> <20030405155833.GV1750@elvis.mu.org> <3E8EFF73.90900@newsguy.com>

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Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> Maxime Henrion wrote:
> 
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>
>> I was finally able to reproduce the problems people have been reporting.
>> That is, the fxp(4) card works but there are many odd "unknown: DMA
>> timeout" and "unknown: device timeout" messages.  This was due to a bug
>> in fxp(4) which was harmless unless you used DEVICE_POLLING.  These
>> problems go away when using the 1.156 revision of if_fxp.c.
>>
>> Please note that other people have been reporting different symptoms, ie
>> the card sees no traffic at all.  I'm not sure the latest sources fix
>> these cases too, but I'm fairly confident they do, because one person who
>> has been reporting me such symptoms was using DEVICE_POLLING too.
> 
> 
> Mmmmmm. Now that I think of it, I am too. On this particular machine. I 
> had forgotten I had configured DEVICE_POLLING in this host alone... :-( 
> Sorry about that. Could have speeded up things some. <sigh>
> 
> I'm trying a new kernel now.

Ok, this fixes it for me.

-- 
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org
capo@professional.bsdconspiracy.net

	Spellng is overated anywy.



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