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Date:      Sun, 9 Mar 2008 19:32:52 -0700
From:      Christopher Cowart <ccowart@rescomp.berkeley.edu>
To:        Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: msk driver issues [was: Re: vlan issues with 7.0-RC3]
Message-ID:  <20080310023252.GM30324@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20080307050004.GB92656@cdnetworks.co.kr>
References:  <20080225091712.GM88015@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> <20080226074355.GD47750@cdnetworks.co.kr> <20080228023840.GR58253@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> <20080229060353.GC60623@cdnetworks.co.kr> <20080303035728.GD58253@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> <20080307050004.GB92656@cdnetworks.co.kr>

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On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 02:00:04PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:57:28PM -0800, Christopher Cowart wrote:
>> While I have your attention, I am also suffering from a problem that was
>> reported to -questions here[1]. About 3 times a day, I'll see the
>> watchdog timeout (missed Tx interrupts) message get logged, after which
>> point the NIC is useless until I reboot. Any ideas?
>>=20
>> [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-February/1=
69633.html
>=20
> I'll have a look.

Pyun recommended the following workaround in /boot/loader.conf:
hw.msk.msi_disable=3D"1"

The NIC has now been working reliably for nearly 3 days.=20

Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
| Glad to hear that. The knob exists to work-around hardware bugs
| present in some PCI bridges that can't handle MSI correctly.
| Normally FreeBSD black-lists known PCI bridges that have this kind
| of bugs but the list may/may not complete. I'm not sure whether this
| is really a bug in PCI bridge on MacBook but most owners of MacBook=20
| seems to require the knob.

Thanks for the help.

--=20
Chris Cowart
Network Technical Lead
Network & Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT
UC Berkeley

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