Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 02:57:44 +0200 From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> To: "Arno J. Klaassen" <arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr>, net@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sk ethernet driver: watchdog timeout Message-ID: <3810000.1081299464@palle.girgensohn.se> In-Reply-To: <wpy8q04buf.fsf@heho.snv.jussieu.fr> References: <20240000.1079394807@palle.girgensohn.se> <wpy8q04buf.fsf@heho.snv.jussieu.fr>
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--On onsdag, mars 17, 2004 00.21.44 +0100 "Arno J. Klaassen" <arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr> wrote: > Hello, > >> I have an ASUS motherboard A7V8X-E Deluxe with onboard 10/100/1000 >> Mbit/s NIC from Marvell Semiconductor. >> >> My problem is that it sometimes lock up with the error message >> >> sk0: watchdog timeout > > I have a similar problem with 3Com cards on an ASUS A7N266; > I just post in case this might be related (and in hope for > a hint for a solution ) Hi again, I've since this thread started tried this on more different systems, with exactly the same results. Anyone else experiencing this? Anything I can do to help fixing it? Regards, Palle >> This is a fresh FreeBSD 4-STABLE system. > > xl0 = 3c905C-TX > xl1 = 3c900-COMBO > switch = Netgear FS105 > > box netboots (using xl0) -Stable from a PPro server with same 3c905C-TX > and works like a charm (network software development use, generating > high network load) > > This weekend I pulled in an old scsi-card and disk and installed > 5.2.1 and -current on it : > > - networking through xl0 gives me about 6Kbps throughput, unworkable > but no freezes > - networking through xl1 works more or less OK as long as I stick > to NFS (udp-mounts), simple editing and serial makes; > the first "make -j X" and/or "ar srv mylib lots-of-ofiles" generates : > > xl1: watchdog timeout > > system does not come back from lost network, at least not for > the first couple of minutes > > whenever I try a "cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/my-supfile" or "cvs -d faraway > update" I always get the same > > xl1: watchdog timeout > > after some dozens of seconds > > As said, same behaviour on 5.2.1 and -current from sunday. > With or without acpi/apic/WITNESS does not make any difference. > With or without CPUTYPE=athlon-xp either. > > Note, when I installed this system (at a co-worker) one year ago, > I *had* to fix "AGP Aperture size" to 64M in the BIOS, otherwise > the netboot failed. > I just think about this, I did not test this weekend whether current > -Stable (sic) works OK when changing this value. > > Thanx for your time, hope this helps to find a solution. > > I can bake a current kernel on another box and ask my coworker > to test it. > > Regards, > > Arno > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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