From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 18 20:25:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E94D14E88; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 20:25:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (wes@zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA21268; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:24:55 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <36F1D196.C7E58624@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:24:54 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fxp driver causing lockup References: <199903172356.RAA14113@us.networkcs.com> <36F04CD0.B0D46F3B@softweyr.com> <36F1C9B9.257D9269@softweyr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Wes Peters writes: > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > Wes Peters writes: > > > > It did, it's working fine now. Here's the diff vs. 3.1-RELEASE: > > > > [...] > > > > > > Hmm, I wonder if this will fix the "freeze while probing fxp0" bug as > > > well. ISTR that's what's keeping FreeBSD out of IBM's list of > > > recommended operating systems for the Netfinity. > > > > I haven't seen any freezes while *probing* the fxp, but they may not > > really know the difference. The hang happened in the *attach*, when > > the user (or system) ifconfig's the interface up. Do you have any > > details, or a contact I can email? > > No, I've never had trouble with the fxp driver. It's something I saw > mentioned on one of the lists - either -advocacy or -chat. Mike, I saw something in the -chat archives where you were beating up Brett Glass (always fun) w.r.t. problems with the NetFinity. You mention the "initialising fxp0 hangs" bug. Do you think this might have been the problem? Mine was on a Toshiba 7000S with on-board EEPro 100+; it was failing during the attach due to not having bus mastering turned on. Do you know anyone at IBM that can give this patch a try on a NetFinity with onboard EEPro 100 to see if it fixes the problem? If not, if they are willing to ship me a system for a few weeks I'm willing to beat on it until I get it working. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message