On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:01:39AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 June 2007 09:15 pm, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:20:11AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote:
> > > On Friday 08 June 2007 09:59 pm, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:13:37AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote:
> > > > > Good morning,
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm having a bit of an issue getting a 3CR990B-TXM NIC detected
> > > > > and usable. Just wondering if anyone knows of any issues with
> > > > > this NIC chipset and/or with the motherboard chipset.
> > > > >
> > > > > The motherboard is a Biostar GeForce 6100 AM2 using an nVidia
> > > > > nForce 410 chipset and nVidia GeForce 6100 vide chipset.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've tried FreeBSD 6.1, 6.2, 6-STABLE (from Wed), and 7-CURRENT
> > > > > (from Thu) on this system. Everything installs nicely,
> > > > > everything on the board is detected correctly and usable. It's
> > > > > just the PCI NIC that doesn't work.
> > > > >
> > > > > If I compile a custom kernel without any network drivers in it,
> > > > > and then kldload if_txp, the following appears (same message on
> > > > > all 4 versions):
> > > > >
> > > > > txp0: <3Com 3cR990B-TXM Etherlink with 3XP Processor> port
> > > > > 0xbc00-0xbc7f mem 0xfdcff000-0xfdcff07f irq 16 at device 8.0 on
> > > > > pci3 txp0: not waiting for boot
> > > > > device_attach: txp0 attach returned -1
> > > >
> > > > Would you try attached path?
> > > > It wouldn't fix your issue but it will handle failure of
> > > > contigmalloc as expected.
> > >
> > > Patch applies cleanly, module compiles cleanly, and module is
> > > kldloaded cleanly. But same error message as before, and no txp0
> > > device is created.
> > >
> > > Tested on 7-CURRENT from last week.
> >
> > Thanks for testing!
> >
> > It seems that the message will show up in case of firmware loading/ring
> > initialization failure. Try attached patch which will show failing
> > function name.
>
> Patch uplied cleanly, module compiled clealy, and module was kldloaded
> cleanly.
>
> Error message is now:
> txp0: <3Com 3cR990B-TXM Etherlink with 3XP Processor> port 0xbc00-0xbc7f
> mem 0xfdcff000-0xfdcff07f irq 18 at device 6.0 on pci3
> txp0: txp_download_fw: not waiting for boot
> device_attach: txp0 attach returned -1
>
> The IRQ and device numbers changed as it's in a different PCI slot than
> before.
>
> Looks like your guess was right, there's something not working right in
> the firmware download.
>
Revert previous patch and apply attached patch again.
Please give it spin and let me know result.
> > Because I don't have 3CR990 hardware it's very hard to fix it. I'm
> > unsure remote debugging would help here.
> > Btw, it seems the hardware looks very good(except for extra copying on
> > strict alignment architecture) and it even supports TSO!
>
> We normally use 3C905-series and 3C980-series NICs. Our local PC vendor
> sent us these instead when we ordered low-profile NICs to put into our
> new firewall boxes (while we wait for the back-order on Intel gigabit
> dual-port, low-profile, PCIe NICs to be filled).
>
I don't have experience from 3C980 but it seems the 3C990 with 3XP
processor looks better hardware than 3C905/3C980 series.
> I was going to try upgrading the firmware on the NICs, as there's an
> update available on the 3Com website, but the installer requires a
> Windows box (tried via a DOS boot disk and get the "Can't be run in DOS
> mode" error), which we don't have available at the moment.
>
--
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
Index: if_txp.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/dev/txp/if_txp.c,v
retrieving revision 1.46
diff -u -r1.46 if_txp.c
--- if_txp.c 12 Jun 2007 04:33:21 -0000 1.46
+++ if_txp.c 14 Jun 2007 03:50:51 -0000
@@ -541,14 +541,15 @@
WRITE_REG(sc, TXP_H2A_0, TXP_BOOTCMD_DOWNLOAD_COMPLETE);
- for (i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i < 20000; i++) {
r = READ_REG(sc, TXP_A2H_0);
if (r == STAT_WAITING_FOR_BOOT)
break;
DELAY(50);
}
if (r != STAT_WAITING_FOR_BOOT) {
- device_printf(sc->sc_dev, "not waiting for boot\n");
+ device_printf(sc->sc_dev, "%s: not waiting for boot, "
+ "status = 0x%08x\n", __func__, r);
return (-1);
}
@@ -1014,7 +1015,7 @@
boot->br_zero_hi = 0;
/* See if it's waiting for boot, and try to boot it */
- for (i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i < 20000; i++) {
r = READ_REG(sc, TXP_A2H_0);
if (r == STAT_WAITING_FOR_BOOT)
break;
@@ -1022,7 +1023,8 @@
}
if (r != STAT_WAITING_FOR_BOOT) {
- device_printf(sc->sc_dev, "not waiting for boot\n");
+ device_printf(sc->sc_dev, "%s: not waiting for boot, "
+ "status = 0x%08x\n", __func__, r);
return(ENXIO);
}
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