David Malone writes:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 07:51:17PM +0100, Walter C. Pelissero wrote:
> > This enforces my belief that there is something broken in some deeper
> > layer of the network code (see the remote printing issue).
>
> Just out of curiosity, what sort of network card is your Vaio using?
> Someone else is seeing network related panics that might be related
> to freeing an mbuf that's in use, and it's possible this might be
> related.
Mmmm, you might be right. I'm using a 3com 589, therefore I'm using
the ep driver.
Unfortunately I don't have a different PCMCIA network card at hand,
but I can try to reverse the crash test with my server. Yes, the
server is running exactly the same version (4.4-RC) but uses the de
driver.
So I did and, guess what, the find/cat test on my server over an NFS
mounted directory from my Vaio ran without a problem.
I've just done a further test. I've mounted a directory tree from
Vaio to Vaio using localhost (lo driver) and the test has run
smoothly. So chances would be good the bug is in the ep driver.
Unfortunately...
$ ls -l /sys/dev/ep
total 70
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 23554 Jul 17 2000 if_ep.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6202 Jan 14 2000 if_ep_eisa.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 10046 Dec 16 2000 if_ep_isa.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4584 Oct 27 1999 if_ep_mca.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6950 Aug 9 2000 if_ep_pccard.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 13935 Jan 12 2000 if_epreg.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2667 May 24 2000 if_epvar.h
none of the modules belonging to the ep driver has been touched for a
long time.
Side note. Regarding a different problem I've mentioned in
freebsd-hackers I've been told 4.4-RC has got problems with the PCCARD
code. Whether that can influence the ep driver is beyond my
knowledge.
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walter pelissero
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