From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 28 10:38:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D74C16A41F for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:38:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@areilly.bpc-users.org) Received: from omta04sl.mx.bigpond.com (omta04sl.mx.bigpond.com [144.140.93.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBCC843D46 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:38:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andrew@areilly.bpc-users.org) Received: from areilly.bpc-users.org ([141.168.4.160]) by omta04sl.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20060328103854.YVLQ12993.omta04sl.mx.bigpond.com@areilly.bpc-users.org> for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:38:54 +0000 Received: (qmail 88788 invoked by uid 501); 28 Mar 2006 10:40:07 -0000 Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:40:07 +1100 From: Andrew Reilly To: Marian Hettwer Message-ID: <20060328104007.GD87799@gurney.reilly.home> References: <20060327093011.GA21070@math.jussieu.fr> <4427B820.3000702@lipn.univ-paris13.fr> <20060327103720.GB21070@math.jussieu.fr> <200603270746.05169.joao@matik.com.br> <20060327110226.GC21070@math.jussieu.fr> <4427E3B1.3020704@kernel32.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4427E3B1.3020704@kernel32.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, shih@math.jussieu.fr, JoaoBR Subject: Re: watchdog network card X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:38:56 -0000 On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 03:08:01PM +0200, Marian Hettwer wrote: > Albert Shih wrote: > > Le 27/03/2006 ? 07:46:04-0300, JoaoBR a ?crit > > > > >>is your card in polling mode ? > > > > > > Well I don't known what's that mean. I just look the ifconfig's man...I > > just use default config, and I don't think I use poling mode. > > > polling is described in polling(4) --> man 4 polling That page points out that you need to re-compile your kernel with options DEVICE_POLLING, the OP should make sure that he does that, too. > > I don't understand : You think is better to put my card in polling mode or > > not ? > > > you can give it a try > ifconfig $interface polling > or > ifconfig $interface -polling > to disable polling... After the last rebuild on my amd64-x2 box, both the nve ethernet on the motherboard and the dc ethernet that I had been using to work around other problems in the nve driver stopped working in this way. DEVICE_POLLING and ifconfig...polling has got me going again. I thoroughly recommend it. Cheers, -- Andrew