On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 02:00:04PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: >On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:57:28PM -0800, Christopher Cowart wrote: >> While I have your attention, I am also suffering from a problem that was >> reported to -questions here[1]. About 3 times a day, I'll see the >> watchdog timeout (missed Tx interrupts) message get logged, after which >> point the NIC is useless until I reboot. Any ideas? >> >> [1] >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-February/169633.html > > I'll have a look.
Pyun recommended the following workaround in /boot/loader.conf: hw.msk.msi_disable="1" The NIC has now been working reliably for nearly 3 days. Pyun YongHyeon wrote: | Glad to hear that. The knob exists to work-around hardware bugs | present in some PCI bridges that can't handle MSI correctly. | Normally FreeBSD black-lists known PCI bridges that have this kind | of bugs but the list may/may not complete. I'm not sure whether this | is really a bug in PCI bridge on MacBook but most owners of MacBook | seems to require the knob. Thanks for the help. -- Chris Cowart Network Technical Lead Network & Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT UC Berkeley
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