Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:15:57 -0800 From: Royce Williams <royce@alaska.net> To: Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Martin <nakal@web.de> Subject: Re: em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying Message-ID: <4897475D.3020600@alaska.net> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0808041054j1523a6d6gcb8b7f726bfbc4a9@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080801142005.473c17ca@zelda.local> <2a41acea0808010924u22603c61p10e47237fad5b6fb@mail.gmail.com> <20080802064727.042d5e3d@web.de> <2a41acea0808021034g588fdc77w50797f473e8809b0@mail.gmail.com> <20080804113448.0a4b3991@zelda.local> <20080804102307.GA28928@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20080804125138.59ed0252@zelda.local> <20080804174458.4dda8369@zelda.local> <2a41acea0808041018nc60b3uf53d2e898a73d9a9@mail.gmail.com> <48973DD9.20303@alaska.net> <2a41acea0808041054j1523a6d6gcb8b7f726bfbc4a9@mail.gmail.com>
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Jack Vogel wrote, on 8/4/2008 9:54 AM: > On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Royce Williams <royce@alaska.net> wrote: >> Jack Vogel wrote, on 8/4/2008 9:18 AM: >>> The focus here on the laptop distracted me, but someone else at work >>> reminded me. Its very important that you run the EEPROM fix for >>> the 82573 that i posted a long while back, search in email archive >>> for it. Its a DOS executable that will patch your EEPROM. >>> >>> I am not sure if the Lenova's need it, but get it, run it, and then >>> see if your problem goes away. >> Martin, there's also a link to it from Jeremy's "Commonly Reported >> Issues" page: >> >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues >> >> Look for "DOS-based EEPROM". >> >> >> Jack, is this issue the same one that is documented here? >> >> http://e1000.sourceforge.net/doku.php?id=known_issues#v_l_e_tx_unit_hang_messages >> >> >> ... and addressed by this script? >> >> http://e1000.sourceforge.net/doku.php?id=tx_unit_hang >> >> >> If so, the script could be used without booting from a DOS disk. If >> this is unrelated or is an unsafe way to apply this fix, that would be >> handy to know. > Thanks for the pointer Royce, and yes that's the issue, and if you > want to boot Linux and use that instead of DOS then more power to > you. Excellent! For some folks, booting from a Knoppix or Ubuntu CD might be easier than trying to gen up a DOS-bootable USB key. I think that recent Knoppix and Ubuntu include ethtool out of the box. Point of clarity: the script that I linked to above is to test/invoke the problem, not to "address" it. Below is the script that calls ethtool to change the actual bits: http://e1000.sourceforge.net/files/fixeep-82573-dspd.sh Royce -- Royce D. Williams - http://royce.ws/ The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. -A.Adler
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