Re: intel 82550 pro/100 ethernet 5.x timeouts

From: Doug White <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 12:58:07 -0700 (PDT)
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Brett Krueger wrote:

> Hello people,
> 	I've been sifting through alot of lists lately and finally decided to
> make a post out of this since ive tested it on multiple systems without
> success.  p166, pII 400mhz, p4-3.0ghz HT.
> specifically:
>
> fxp0: <Intel 82550 Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0xa000-0xa03f mem
> 0xf5000000-0xf501ffff,0xf5020000-0xf5020fff irq 22 at device 2.0 on pci2
> miibus0: <MII bus> on fxp0
> fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:02:b3:4c:b4:74
>
> In this current machine, ive tested it on 5.4RC4, and 5.4RELEASE as with
> 5.4STABLE. Though I have tried 5.3 as well.

You might try 4.x for fun.

>
> The Error:
>
> May 19 16:55:29 titan kernel: fxp0: DMA timeout
> May 19 16:55:29 titan kernel: fxp0: SCB timeout: 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xffff
> May 19 16:55:29 titan kernel: fxp0: DMA timeout
> May 19 16:55:29 titan kernel: fxp0: SCB timeout: 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xffff

Looks like the device went away or the driver is looking in the wrong
place for the status information...

> If anyone has a fix for this or found a workaround, id love to hear
> about it.  Sadly, our company has 15 of the damn things they purchased
> for a project that are now.... useless for freebsd dev.
> Thank you for your time.

Onboard or PCI cards?

And you honestly want to do freebsd dev on a 166MHz machine? Even my
parents gave up on theirs, and it was running Windows :)

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Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org
Received on Fri May 20 2005 - 17:58:09 UTC

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