Re: RTL8139C+ re driver watchdog timeout

On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 22:13, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Russell Jackson wrote:
> > Ever since 8139C+ support was seperated from the rl driver into the re 
> > driver, I have had timeout problems. The interface simply stops 
> > responding randomly. I never had this problem with the rl driver. At 
> > first I thought this might be do to ACPI not initializing the NIC 
> > correctly, but I have the same problem with ACPI disabled. Ifconfig 
> > doesn't correctly display media status either. It shows media (none) 
> > even though a cable is connected, and the interface will work (however 
> > with the timeout problem).
> > 
> > re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> >         options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
> >         inet 192.168.0.4 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
> >         ether 00:08:02:d0:21:4e
> >         media: Ethernet 100baseTX <full-duplex> (none)
> > 
> > Note that I set the media type and mediaopt manually with ifconfig. It 
> > still shows a status of none.
> > 
> > Also note that this same hardware did work perfectly before with the old 
> > rl driver.
> 
> Just a "me too" entry here, I've put an ifconfig down/up in crontab
> every minute, that seems to keep the interface up :)


yes another me too with a bit more info

But I can get this to happen almost every time with a cvsup. (this is
current). 

What happens is it eventually the chip must stop responding or the code
is not removing mbufs correctly as sc->rl_ldata.rl_tx_free <= 4 in
re_encap causes it to stop.

HTH


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Simon Loader