Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:14:59 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: tony@crosswind.snet Subject: Re: keyboard + if_nfe oddity Message-ID: <200707122014.59844.hselasky@c2i.net> In-Reply-To: <20070712174409.GA18457@crosswinds.net> References: <20070712174409.GA18457@crosswinds.net>
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On Thursday 12 July 2007 19:44, Tony Holmes wrote: > Okay, here's an odd one. > > I have an Asus M2NPV-VM board using the nfe driver from > http://www.f.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html > > Traffic is moderate (approx 7Mbps) and every couple of days, the > nfe device just stops talking to the outside world. I do see one > type of error in the logs: > > Jul 12 10:08:33 cwpro1 kernel: nfe0: watchdog timeout (missed Tx > interrupts) -- recovering Jul 12 10:09:04 cwpro1 kernel: nfe0: watchdog > timeout (missed Tx interrupts) -- recovering > > > The solution? > > Plug in a keyboard (PS2). As soon as ukbd is probed, up fires the > ethernet device and we're talking again. > > So, any ideas? This box is in production so debugging time/possbilities > are limited. Maybe the keyboard generates a missing interrupt for the NFE controller. Are you using 7-current ? I have a box and the built in nfe0 adapter does not work very well, unless I use 7-current! --HPS
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