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Date:      Wed, 07 Jul 1999 23:01:26 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Jay Kuri <jay@oneway.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with fxp driver and 82559 cards 
Message-ID:  <199907080601.XAA25090@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jul 1999 23:03:32 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907072252060.943-100000@daedal.oneway.com> 

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>> >Large data transfers seem to cause the lockup.  I know at least 1 netbsd
>> >person has reported similar problems with these new cards, (kern/7216). 
>> >
>> >Has anyone seen problems like these?  Any ideas?
>> 
>>    Hmmm...I've been using them in some machines here and haven't seen any
>> problems. Strange. Do all of your systems have similar motherboards and CPU?
>
>	The only thing that I can identify as a common factor, is that the
>PCI slots are on a riser card.  One type is an NLX-form factor
>motherboard.  The other is an industrial system with a Single Board
>Computer (SBC) and a passive backplain.  Aside from the riser card, these
>machines are completely different.  (IDE vs. SCSI, no other PCI devices,
>SCSI pci device, pentium vs pentium-II... onboard video/ethernet(in
>addition to the intel cards) vs nothing onboard...)  
>
>	However, we have at least one industrial-type system (with a
>different board/config) that works fine with these cards, though we didn't
>do the install with one.  I'll try that tomorrow and report my findings.
>
>I doubt this is the case, but is the fxp driver different on the install
>floppy than on the post-install kernel / kernel-source?

   Same driver on floppy and installed kernel.

>Any suggestions as to what I should look into?

   It sounds like a motherboard chipset problem.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com


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