Re: network card not probed

On Tuesday 27 March 2007 08:46:21 am Robert Huff wrote:
> 
> John Baldwin writes:
> 
> >  > 	After updating my -CURRENT box to
> >  > 
> >  >  FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Mar 13 22:38:20 EST 2007 i386 
> > 
> >  > de0: <Digital 21140 Fast Ethernet> port 0xa000
> >  > -0xa07f mem 0xef800000-0xef80007f irq 14 at device 11.0 on pci0
> >  > de0: ZNYX ZX34X 21140 [10-100Mb/s] pass 1.1
> >  > de0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
> >  > de0: Ethernet address: 00:c0:95:f8:17:af
> >  > de0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> >  > de0: [ITHREAD]
> >  
> >  de(4) hasn't used Giant in a long while now.  Do you have really
> >  stale sources or something?
> 
> 	Sources are updated every 00:01:00 EST.  The build is never
> more than 18 hours later.
> 
> >  Maybe debug.mpsafenet=0 is set?
> 
> 	It is, due to advice given in:
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-October/040231.html
> 
> 	et seq.. (Specifically, see kern/72294 which is still open 2.5
> years later.)
> 	Has this been fixed and nobody noticed?

Probably, the driver has been locked and reworked significantly since October 
of 2004.  I would try it w/o the flag.  That PR number maps to a ports PR, I 
can't find the PR easily, so if you can find it I'd appreciate it.

-- 
John Baldwin