Re: Missing XL0 and USB printer after upgrade

From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy_at_siliconlandmark.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 06:37:33 -0500 (EST)
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 bcsfd204_at_twcny.rr.com wrote:

> I upgraded two systems over the weekend (2/6-7/04).  I came up from a 5.1-CURRENT level from around October, 2003.  Both are Tyan dual AMD processor systems with built in XL class ethernet cardss.  I reviewed UPDATING and I believe I followed the instructions for the multi-terabyte changes.  The desktop kernel and world went without much of a problem (except nautilus keeps crashing on a segment fault.  I think I have to upgrade Gnome but I was going to do that later.)
>
> I then went to upgrade the server.  When I finished booting the machine, XL0 and my USB attached printer were not recognized (present).
>
> IFCONFIG does not show XL0 and ls /dev does not show my USB printer.
>
> I played with the kernel config (the two machines are almost identical (currently defined but disabled SCSI controller in the server machine))  I also tried SCHED_ULE and SCHED_4BSD and it did not seem to change anything.
>
> What I am noticing for the printer is, I get most of the probe messages but then I start getting the messages about the filesystems being clean and root being mounted.  During this portion of the boot, I get messages about the USB hardware being probed.
>
> It's almost like the hardware probing is not done yet before the kernel startes to mount the filesystems and begin initialization.  (If I mangled the process here I'm sorry.  I'm trying to describe what the external symptoms look like.)
>
> When I review DMESG output, there is nothing present for the XL-class ethernet interfaces.  I also tried adding a VX-class card I had in the closet but this is not detected either.
>
> At the moment, I'm less concerned about the printer.  I'm going nowhere with this server box if I cannot get it back on the wire.

Just for future reference, boot -v at the loader prompt will get you more
verbose output which is useful for diagnosing problems like this. You
might want to hook up a serial console to the machine and make the
output available so that a better idea of what's going on can be had.

Now for your network card problem, try kldload'ing /boot/kernel/if_xl.ko
and see if the device shows up in ifconfig. If it does, you probably
forgot to compile it statically in your kernel. If it doesn't, let us
know.

Regards,
Andy

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >
Received on Tue Feb 10 2004 - 02:37:37 UTC

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