Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 15:08:08 +0100 (BST) From: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: "Dan Ts'o" <dan@dna.rockefeller.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Etherexpress PRO/100+ PCI Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980508143439.26078A-100000@dylan.visint.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199805081153.EAA13187@implode.root.com>
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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.
(N.B. This is a 10Mb/s operation throughout as 100Mb/s hubs would "cost
too much and have no visible benefit" according to those with money.)
Anyway, I sent those cards back and asked for Pro/100B rev2 or greater
cards, unfortunately I could only get Pro/100+ rev 4. With these cards
I've had less problems but I've had them in two machines since early
August. However to some extent they still exhibit the same problem of
occasionaly "losing the network"!
(They still get identified as 100B cards btw.)
Both machines are Gigabyte GA586DX dual P133, with nothing else but some
disks and a straightforward ATI PCI video card in.
One machine has run the same almost prehistoric current snap since it came
out and has occasionaly had problems and the other machine has used
various snapshots until I down(up?)graded to 2.2.6 because of problems
with netatalk (moved to cap and was having problems with -current).
Here's the dmesg from both, first one seems to have less problems (but
gets less use), second one has been okay since I installed 2.2.6, but was
running current from later than 2.2.6 anyway before that with problems
(maybe removing netatalk from this kernel has helped ? I have no idea!)
Hope this is of some help, (either in finding an error or what I'm doing
wrong!)
Steve
First machine : no changes for a long time, fairly stable, with
network card failing perhaps once or twice a month (a fairly low hit
webserver/nameserver)
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steve@wakko% dmesg
Copyright (c) 1992-1997 FreeBSD Inc.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 3.0-970618-SNAP #0: Wed Oct 8 12:45:52 BST 1997
steve@wakko.visint.co.uk:/usr/src/sys/compile/WAKKO
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard
cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 0, version: 0x00030010
cpu1 (AP): apic id: 1, version: 0x00030010
io0 (APIC): apic id: 2, version: 0x00170011
CPU: Pentium (586-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x52c Stepping=12
Features=0x3bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,APIC>
real memory = 67108864 (65536K bytes)
avail memory = 63827968 (62332K bytes)
Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
chip0: <Intel 82439> rev 0x03 on pci0.0.0
chip1: <Intel 82371SB PCI to ISA bridge> rev 0x01 on pci0.7.0
chip2: <Intel 82371SB IDE interface> rev 0x00 on pci0.7.1
vga0: <VGA-compatible display device> rev 0x48 int a irq 17 on pci0.9.0
fxp0: <Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B Ethernet> rev 0x04 int a irq 18 on
pci0.10.0
fxp0: Ethernet address 00:a0:c9:8b:0a:80
ahc0: <Adaptec aic7880 Ultra SCSI host adapter> rev 0x00 int a irq 19 on
pci0.12.0
ahc0: Using left over BIOS settings
ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs
ahc0: waiting for scsi devices to settle
scbus0 at ahc0 bus 0
ahc0: target 0 Tagged Queuing Device
sd0 at scbus0 target 0 lun 0
sd0: <QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM3200S 300X> type 0 fixed SCSI 2
sd0: Direct-Access 3067MB (6281856 512 byte sectors)
Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard
sc0: VGA color <4 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
lp0: TCP/IP capable interface
sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
sio1: type 16550A
pca0 on motherboard
pca0: PC speaker audio driver
npx0 on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
Enabled INTs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 18, 19, imen: 0x00f3fe61
WARNING: / was not properly dismounted.
SMP: All idle procs online.
SMP: *** AUTO *** starting 1st AP!
SMP: AP CPU #1 LAUNCHED!! Starting Scheduling...
SMP: TADA! CPU #1 made it into the scheduler!.
SMP: All 2 CPU's are online!
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Second machine : changed regularly because it exhibits more problems
probably because it gets way more use and hence traffic
(10 people use this as a fileserver and internal webserver and xterm
server).
steve@yakko% dmesg
Copyright (c) 1992-1998 FreeBSD Inc.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE #1: Wed Apr 29 16:40:06 BST 1998
root@yakko.visint.co.uk:/usr/src/sys/compile/YAKKO
CPU: Pentium (133.68-MHz 586-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x52c Stepping=12
Features=0x3bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,APIC>
real memory = 67108864 (65536K bytes)
avail memory = 63627264 (62136K bytes)
Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
chip0 <Intel 82439> rev 3 on pci0:0:0
chip1 <Intel 82371SB PCI-ISA bridge> rev 1 on pci0:7:0
chip2 <Intel 82371SB IDE interface> rev 0 on pci0:7:1
fxp0 <Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B Ethernet> rev 4 int a irq 15 on
pci0:10:0
fxp0: Ethernet address 00:a0:c9:8b:0a:65
vga0 <VGA-compatible display device> rev 72 on pci0:11:0
ahc0 <Adaptec aic7880 Ultra SCSI host adapter> rev 0 int a irq 11 on
pci0:12:0
ahc0: Using left over BIOS settings
ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs
ahc0: target 0 Tagged Queuing Device
(ahc0:0:0): "QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM3200S 300X" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 3067MB (6281856 512 byte sectors)
ahc0: target 4 Tagged Queuing Device
(ahc0:4:0): "SEAGATE ST32430N 0640" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
sd1(ahc0:4:0): Direct-Access 2049MB (4197405 512 byte sectors)
ahc0: target 5 Tagged Queuing Device
(ahc0:5:0): "SEAGATE ST32430N 0510" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
sd2(ahc0:5:0): Direct-Access 2049MB (4197405 512 byte sectors)
Probing for PnP devices:
No Plug-n-Play devices were found
Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard
sc0: VGA color <4 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
ed0 not found at 0x280
lpt0 not found at 0xffffffff
npx0 on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
stray irq 7
Intel Pentium F00F detected, installing workaround
ccd0-3: Concatenated disk drivers
stray irq 7
stray irq 7
stray irq 7
stray irq 7
too many stray irq 7's; not logging any more
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Steve Roome - Vision Interactive Ltd.
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