Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 15:43:23 -0500 From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 4.5 woes and ed0 non-functional in 4.4 Message-ID: <200203102043.g2AKhTT25738@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
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I have a client's machine with an SMC 8216 NIC and a 3COM509 NIC in an elderly IBM 300 server configuration with SCSI drives. I am trying to upgrade this machine from 3.3-RLEASE to 4.5-RELEASE. I had no luck in doing the usual 'make buildworld', 'make buildkernel', etc route. I ran into unresolved references, etc. So, I decided to build up a machine with a SCSI disk system and the same NICs and 'gen up' a new boot disk and try it all out before installing it at the client's place. I immediately found that I could not get 4.5-RELEASE kernels to run on my test bed machine. I got an immedate 'page fault in kernel mode'. I also tried building up another 'test bed' machine on a different motherboard, processor and memory. I got the same results; ie, 4.5 page faulted and 4.4 ran, but with no ep0. (the '509). Both the NICs are OK hardware-wise.. Going back to an old 4.4-RELEASE kernel from last summer, I found that this worked OK with the 8216, but it didn't have the 3c509 driver, so, I cvsup'd back to 4.4-RELEASE, built up a new world and kernel and now all is well, no page faults, but the ed0 driver just does not work. This is 4.4-RELEASE P9 . The card is recognized, the irq, memory and port are correct, but it immediately says 'ed0 timeout' when you try to send packets through it. The 3c509 works fine. Unfortunately, in my 'tidying up' I nuked the old 4.4 kernel and I don't know what patch level it was. 8-( . I see nothing in the bug reports about this. Google doesn't show me any similar occurence, either. So, has anyone had any similar experiences? I don't expect an answer to the 4.5 problem, because I realize I need to compile a kernel with '-g' and figure out where the page fault is happening, but I wasn't aware of any problems with the ed driver. -Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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