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Date:      Tue, 06 Jul 2004 19:42:11 -0600
From:      Brad Waite <freebsd@wcubed.net>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Gigabits, watchdog timeouts and downtime, oh my!
Message-ID:  <40EB54F3.20205@wcubed.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040706183105.R24627@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <1068.24.9.172.8.1089064477.squirrel@webmail.wcubed.net> <20040706160201.X24627@carver.gumbysoft.com> <40EB532A.8020401@wcubed.net> <20040706183105.R24627@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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Doug White wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Brad Waite wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>Decided to move into the Gigabit world yesterday and picked up a SMC
>>>>9452TX for my 4.10-STABLE box.  I rebuilt the kernel with the sk device
>>>>and while it works somewhat, I'm getting 'sk0: watchdog timeout' errors
>>>>and the card goes down for a few seconds before waking back up.  This
>>>>happens under relatively light traffic, too.
>>>
>>>
>>>Sounds like autoneg flaking out; try a different cable?
>>>
>>
>>No I didn't, but I did enable "PCI IRQs to IO-APIC mapping" in my BIOS.
>>  Everything works like a champ now.  Woot!
> 
> 
> Wierd. What brand/model of system or motherboard do you have? It seems odd
> that theres even a toggle for that.
> 

Micron NetFRAME MV5000 server, Intel MB440LX dual P-II.  I stumbled 
across the solution on -questions where someone else did the same thing, 
so I'm not the only one.



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