Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 10:26:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: steve@visint.co.uk (Stephen Roome) Cc: dg@root.com, dan@dna.rockefeller.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Etherexpress PRO/100+ PCI Message-ID: <199805091026.DAA28164@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980508143439.26078A-100000@dylan.visint.co.uk> from "Stephen Roome" at May 8, 98 03:08:08 pm
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> > On Fri, 8 May 1998, David Greenman wrote: > > A couple of questions: Which version of FreeBSD is running on those > > machines? Are you sure that the cards are Pro/100+'s and not Pro/100B's? > > They look very similar, except the 100B has an extra chip. Are you using > > the cards in 10Mbps mode or 100Mbps mode? Are they connected to a hub or > > a switch? > > (If you search the questions list archive with "Roome AND Greenman AND > Intel" you might remember the original question, but that's not important > anymore) > > I originally bought Pro/100B rev 1 cards, which had some problems with > coping with extraneous network junk packets, (you menioned that this could > be a bug in the early 82557's). The symptom was that the card would cease > responding to the network, effectively the same as unplugging the lead. [ ... machine #1 ... ] > fxp0: <Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B Ethernet> rev 0x04 int a irq 18 on > ahc0: <Adaptec aic7880 Ultra SCSI host adapter> rev 0x00 int a irq 19 on > SMP: All 2 CPU's are online! [ ... machine #1 ... ] > fxp0 <Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B Ethernet> rev 4 int a irq 15 on > ahc0 <Adaptec aic7880 Ultra SCSI host adapter> rev 0 int a irq 11 on > stray irq 7 > stray irq 7 > stray irq 7 > too many stray irq 7's; not logging any more The first machine is SMP. Does the problem happen if you run a UP kernel? The second machine has a noise generator on the bus. You need to locate it. It may be a sound card without a driver byt with an open source. I also notice that the interrupt is a shared PCI interrupt in both cases. You should try to do something about this for performance reasons as well, but this *may* be where the problem is lurking. At the very least, it's a suspicious "coincidence". Hope this helps... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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