Re: Intel Card Fails.

["Chris Black" <cblack@eragen.com>]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 01:42:03PM -0600, Wm. Allen Vonderschmidt wrote:
> 	I am having problems with a motherboard which has dual Intel 10/100 NICs
> built-in.  One is an "Intel 82562EM controller", the other is an "Intel
> 82559 controller". The device seen as fxp0 will time out after a short
> amount of time (4-8 hours).  Here is what is in /var/log/messages:
>
> Nov 23 03:57:24 vpn01 /bsd: fxp0: device timeout
>
> 	I am running 2.9 straight off of the CD.  I originally noticed this
problem
> after getting the patch branch via CVS (been a couple weeks not sure of the
> exact date).  I went back to a fresh install of just 2.9 off of the CD and
> thought the problem was gone since the box ran fine for about 3 days.  But
> now it is back.  A temp fix is that I have cron reboot the box every 12
> hours.
>
> 	Any help or recommendations for places to look for a path to a solution
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Wm. Allen Vonderschmidt
> Axiom Technologies, Inc.
> 913-488-3767
>

I had some of these same issues under 2.9 with fxp0 onboard nics. What I
finally did was to rebuild a kernel with pcibios disabled. I have since
discovered that many such kernel config changes can be done without
rebuilding the kernel at the UKC (?) prompt. I could actually
trigger the fxp0 going into a non-responsive state by sending lots of data.

Chris

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