I'm posting this to a few lists that I hope I might get some info from.
I have been using the fxp driver for quite a while with good results, so when it came
time to get some gigabit stuff I
looked and saw the wx driver. I decided it would be convenient to stick with Intel for
several reasons. So now I have a
handful of Compaq NC3131 boards with NC6132 modules.
The NC3131 is a 64bit PCI card with a DEC 21154 (later revs have a chip stamped Intel
but its id is the same as the
DEC) PCI bridge and a couple Intel 82558 chips. It also has an expansion connector.
The NC6132 module plugs onto
this card to add a gigabit fiber port. The docs say its an Intel 82542 chip, though
the actual chip on the boards are
stamped LSI.
I put them in a few machines here. A couple are x86 boxes with Windows 2000 and/or
Linux, for which the Intel drivers
work and they interconnect fine. The other is an Alpha running FreeBSD 4.2. The fxp
and wx drivers load fine, but I have
problems when I connect the gigabit port to another one of the machines. The FreeBSD
machine repeated prints
"wx0: receive sequence error" while the other machine is overwhelmed with 100%
kernel/system CPU usage such
that its barely responsive.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on, if there's any hope of fixing this, and
what the solution would be? Thanks.
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