From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 28 8:46:54 2002 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 1A5A637B405 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 08:46:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from TMA-1.brad-x.com (static-b2-191.highspeed.eol.ca [64.56.236.191]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 618F243E06 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 08:46:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad@brad-x.com) Received: from Olduvai.netpro.centennialcollege.ca (unknown [199.212.61.131]) by TMA-1.brad-x.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B4C322104A for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 11:49:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 11:45:16 -0400 From: Brad To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: if_xl stall on kldload (apologies for repost) Message-Id: <20020628114516.51ed8be0.brad@brad-x.com> Organization: brad-x.com X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I noticed an odd stall on a system with a 3Com 3c509 NIC; loading the if_xl.ko module during runtime, especially in cases where there there is an application attempting to use the network, will stall out. The machine will function normally, but the module will not load, nor will the console be freed again (kldload will not accept a kill signal of any kind). On only one occasion this has lead to a system panic. My workaround is to compile this driver into the kernel, which is fine; the hard disk is removable however, and travels between several hardware configurations which otherwise work seamlessly. FreeBSD Olduvai.brad-x.com 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #1: Wed Jun 19 13:35:25 EDT 2002 root@Olduvai.brad-x.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/OLDUVAI i386 Debugging is not enabled in this kernel; I will attach dmesg output in a reply to this message shortly, detailing the hardware on the machine; no specific errors are generated that can render assistance though. I would like to know what further information I can provide; I'm generally unfamiliar with dealing with a kernel debugger, but I'm a quick study. :P Thanks, Brad // -- http://www.BRAD-X.com/ -- // Sorry to repost this, the last one was written in a reply window unintentionally. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message