From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 9 19: 9: 7 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 DDC6237B400; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 19:09:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cage.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAC5E43E3B; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 19:09:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from house.sentex.net (fcage [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.12.5/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6A28up9064176; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 22:08:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020709220704.06f0df30@192.168.0.12> X-Sender: mdtancsa@192.168.0.12 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 22:08:57 -0400 To: David Greenman-Lawrence From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: intel etherexpress pro and fxp status?? Cc: Ken Gunderson , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020709135159.M28874@nexus.root.com> References: <20020709144436.B12572@kasilof.boi.hp.com> <20020709102153.A14126@kasilof.boi.hp.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20020709125431.03fade00@marble.sentex.ca> <20020709144436.B12572@kasilof.boi.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: amavis-20020220 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 At 01:51 PM 7/9/2002 -0700, David Greenman-Lawrence wrote: > The 82557 has a receive side bug that can cause it to stop receiving, but >this isn't caused by it being 'overwhelmed". The problem is supposed to only >occur when using them in 10Mbps mode, although it can happen if the link >changes state as well. The FreeBSD driver has a work-around for this problem >and it the bug shouldn't exist in newer Intel chips in any case. I ran into this _hardware_ bug on a number of motherboards and each one after using the patched driver (commited some time ago) that jlemon did fixed the problem 100% of the time. ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message