Re: igb watchdog timeouts

2011-01-14 Thread Charles Owens
context switches, which is why the Linux approach does what it does. I have not spent time with that issue, its good to know that there could be problems lurking with it. But if you can simply go with MSIX I would do that for now. Jack On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Charles

Re: igb watchdog timeouts

2011-01-13 Thread Charles Owens
es On 1/13/11 1:27 PM, Jack Vogel wrote: The 8.2 latest does have the latest igb, so using that should be indicative... Jack On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Charles Owens mailto:cow...@greatbaysoftware.com>> wrote: Ok... I got my wires crossed: our first time testing 8.1 on

Re: igb watchdog timeouts

2011-01-13 Thread Charles Owens
due to having MSIX interrupts disabled on the system, I doubt that is going to be the "issue" for others. Get the latest version of the igb code and see if that helps you as a first step. Jack On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Charles Owens mailto:cow...@greatbaysoftware.com>&

Re: igb watchdog timeouts

2011-01-12 Thread Charles Owens
ou had any luck? Thanks, Charles Charles Owens Great Bay Software, Inc. On 1/3/11 4:02 PM, Robin Sommer wrote: Hello all, quite a while ago I asked about the problem below. Unfortunately, I haven't found a solution yet and I'm actually still seeing these timeouts after just upgra

Re: em(4): 4-port Intel Pro/1000 PF card not detected

2010-11-15 Thread Charles Owens
, Charles Owens mailto:cow...@greatbaysoftware.com>> wrote: Well, I believe we have an answer: http://www.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/sb/CS-030873.htm The motherboard definitely is PCIe 2.0 . The page suggests these cards for use with a PCIe2.0 system: # Inte

Re: em(4): 4-port Intel Pro/1000 PF card not detected

2010-11-15 Thread Charles Owens
n also send me all the details about the board, just to make sure I can get the exact one and then I'll try it here. This is quad port fiber, right? I was thinking this was PCI ID 0x1527, 82580 adapter. The support is in HEAD now. Regards, Jack On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at

Re: em(4): 4-port Intel Pro/1000 PF card not detected

2010-11-15 Thread Charles Owens
ng this was PCI ID 0x1527, 82580 adapter. The support is in HEAD now. Regards, Jack On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Charles Owens mailto:cow...@greatbaysoftware.com>> wrote: Jack, I'm afraid that with the card _not_ installed we get identical pciconf output. We'

Re: em(4): 4-port Intel Pro/1000 PF card not detected

2010-11-15 Thread Charles Owens
s I see are in the 0x3XXX range and those are not network devices. Maybe its a bad slot? Jack On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Charles Owens wrote: Great... thanks! Please see attached. BTW, the system is running 8.0-RELEASE-p2 i386 (PAE). Charles On 11/13/10 2:24 AM, Jack Vogel wrote: p

Re: em(4): 4-port Intel Pro/1000 PF card not detected

2010-11-15 Thread Charles Owens
27;ve been fighting a bug in the header split code. Show me what the output looks like, and I'll get ya fixed up, dont worry :) Jack On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Charles Owens mailto:cow...@greatbaysoftware.com>> wrote: Hello, We're trying to work with newly purcha

em(4): 4-port Intel Pro/1000 PF card not detected

2010-11-12 Thread Charles Owens
- is there a known issue with the 4-port version? We've tried three different cards of this model, all with same result. Thanks in advance for any help. Charles -- Charles Owens Great Bay Software, Inc. ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org ma

attempting local merge of e1000 from RELENG_8 to RELENG_8_0

2010-04-19 Thread Charles Owens
relies on somehow, such that this is an iffy proposition? * Has the e1000 driver in -STABLE now mostly stabilized... or is additional engineering expected in the near term? Any and all assistance is greatly appreciated! Thanks, Charles -- Charles

MFC of igb fixes?

2010-03-22 Thread Charles Owens
] igb0: [ITHREAD] igb0: Ethernet address: 00:15:17:b4:cf:e4 igb1: port 0x3000-0x301f mem 0xb1b0-0xb1b1,0xb1b4-0xb1b43fff irq 28 at device 0.1 on pci1 igb1: Using MSIX interrupts with 3 vectors igb1: [ITHREAD] igb1: [ITHREAD] igb1: [ITHREAD] igb1: Ethernet address: 00:15:17:b4:cf:e5

Re: Sudden mbuf demand increase and shortage under the load (igb issue?)

2010-03-11 Thread Charles Owens
I've dug around in the source repo... it appears the new code is just shy of being MFC'd. Any known caveats with the new code or is it by all accounts good to go? I'm going to try testing it in 8.0. Thanks Charles Owens Great Bay Software, Inc. Charles Owens wrot

Re: Sudden mbuf demand increase and shortage under the load (igb issue?)

2010-03-11 Thread Charles Owens
up/down/up), but I'm concerned that we might fall victim to other symptoms mentioned if we put the system under load. Would you recommend we apply the igb patch you've mentioned? Is it in RELENG_8 yet, or is it still under development? Thanks very much, Charles Charles Owens Great Bay Soft

Re: libnet_get_hwaddr() failing with FreeBSD 8

2010-02-03 Thread Charles Owens
Charles Owens wrote: > Hello, > > I'm working with some code (snippet below) that fails with > libnet_get_hwaddr() function (it returns false). The code works fine > under 7.x but not with 8.0 . > > Any thoughts as to what might be going on? > Issue solved. I

libnet_get_hwaddr() failing with FreeBSD 8

2010-02-01 Thread Charles Owens
octet, 6); return 0; } -- Charles Owens Great Bay Software, Inc. ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: "PHY read timeout" with bce2 & 3 on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-01-20 Thread Charles Owens
Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:40:55AM -0500, Charles Owens wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm working with a system (IBM System x3550 M2) that has four onboard >> bce(4) NICs. Using FreeBSD 8.0, the first two seem to function fine, >> but the sec

Re: "PHY read timeout" with bce2 & 3 on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-01-18 Thread Charles Owens
Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:40:55AM -0500, Charles Owens wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm working with a system (IBM System x3550 M2) that has four onboard >> bce(4) NICs. Using FreeBSD 8.0, the first two seem to function fine, >> but the sec

"PHY read timeout" with bce2 & 3 on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-01-18 Thread Charles Owens
src/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c(1533): Error: PHY read timeout! phy = 1, reg = 0x0001 What's are the best next steps to take in figuring this out? Thanks in advance for any assistance. Kernel boot log appending below. Charles -- Charles Owens Great Bay Software, Inc. Copyright (c) 1992-2