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Date:      Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:45:25 +0100
From:      Ihsan Dogan <ihsan@dogan.ch>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: em0: watchdog timeout ...
Message-ID:  <47273575.5030002@dogan.ch>
In-Reply-To: <200710301328.l9UDSWAK081359@lava.sentex.ca>
References:  <20071011003619.GA84433@obelix.dsto.defence.gov.au> <2a41acea0710102002j5c09d285kac076ce2b5e4af41@mail.gmail.com> <fg596h$3a5$1@ger.gmane.org> <200710301328.l9UDSWAK081359@lava.sentex.ca>

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on 30.10.2007 14:29 Mike Tancsa said the following:

>> I've got exactly the same problem on a machine, running 7.0-BETA1. The
>> Problem occurs during the boot, when dhclient is trying to get IP. The
>> messages are occuring all the time an it's not possible to use the
>> network card at all.
>> In my case, the network card and the soundcard are sharing an irq. If I
>> don't load the the snd_emu10k1 driver, the network card works perfectly.
> Mine are shared interrupts as well, however, they are shared among the
> nics, so disabling is not an option
> 
> % vmstat -i
> interrupt                          total       rate
> irq1: atkbd0                           5          0
> irq4: sio0                         61332          0
> irq16: em0                    1029688695        614
> irq17: em1 em2 em3             775893384        463
> irq19: atapci1                    300947          0
> cpu0: timer                   3347198272       1997
> cpu1: timer                   3347136233       1997
> Total                         8500278868       5073
> 
> 
> em1 is the one having the problems (and yes, I did check the eeprom issue)
> 
> em1@pci1:0:1:   class=0x020000 card=0x115e8086 chip=0x105e8086 rev=0x06
> hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>     device     = 'PRO/1000 PT'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
>     cap 01[c8] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D3  current D0
>     cap 05[d0] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit
>     cap 10[e0] = PCI-Express 1 endpoint
> 
> its also in FastE mode and not gigE. Not sure if that makes a difference
> or not.

I'm running 1000baseTX. Looks like, that it doesn't depend on that.



Ihsan

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