Re: lnc0 in VmWare doesn't work

--- "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn_at_neville-neil.com> wrote:

> At Sat, 14 Aug 2004 10:57:24 -0700 (PDT),
> Vitaly Markitantov wrote:
> > > On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Vitaly Markitantov wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > I can't get any files off of my system because without lnc0 it has no
> > > > > network.  I can only get in on the vmware console.
> > > > 
> > > > I use for this purpose USB-flash drive.
> > > > 
> > > > But turning off ACPI does nothing for this problem.  lnc0 still doesn't
> > > > work without ACPI too. 
> > > 
> > > I did make a change yesterday to add IFF_NEEDSGIANT to the ifnet flags of
> > > the interface.  Theory suggests this should't be the problem (especially
> > > if you're not running with debug.mpsafenet=1), but practice is generally
> > > more relevant :-).  Is it possible for you to check to see if the
> > > before/after versions of that change to see if that's the cause?
> > 
> > I will try tomorrow, but i saw problem with lnc0 before yesterdays changes.
> > I think problems appeared around August 04-07.
> 
> OK, I believe this is an interrupt problem.  I turned on debugging and
> the memory locations of the tx and rx rings look OK.  THe problem is
> nothing is being sent/received, the rings are full but nothing else. 
> 
> I need to figure out how to mount a USB flash drive, under -CURRENT as
> the Guest and Red Hat 9 as the vmware host.  Then I can send the
> output along.  I'll look more into this tonight as my test pod is dead
> without this stuff and I need to test some IPv6 stuff.

I found what is the cause of problem with lnc0.
it's commited vm_contig.c from Thu Aug 5 14:54:12 PDT 2004 ( 
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2004-August/028854.html )

I set in  /boot/loader.conf 
vm.old_contigmalloc="1"
and all stuff works fine.


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Vitaly Markitantov
+38050-3530077


	
		
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