Re: bug with some em nics on RELENG_7

2009-12-11 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Thu, 19-Nov-2009 at 09:27:36 -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: > Cool, so stable/7 will just need to be updated :) I need to catch up all the Hi Jack, has this been done already? I am asking since I have problem which might be related to this: A FreeBSD-7.2 machine (Sat Nov 28 12:28:42 CET 2009) with

Re: bug with some em nics on RELENG_7

2009-11-19 Thread Jack Vogel
Cool, so stable/7 will just need to be updated :) I need to catch up all the drivers in that stream actually. Thanks for testing!! Jack On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 07:29 PM 11/18/2009, Jack Vogel wrote: > >> Hey Mike, >> >> Can you check if you see the same behav

Re: bug with some em nics on RELENG_7

2009-11-19 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:29 PM 11/18/2009, Jack Vogel wrote: Hey Mike, Can you check if you see the same behavior on RELENG 8? For RELENG_8. I installed an fxp card and netbooted off it. I assigned an IP address to the onboard nic (em5). Pinged itself, got a MAC and response. Plugged in the cable, pinged the o

Re: bug with some em nics on RELENG_7

2009-11-18 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:29 PM 11/18/2009, Jack Vogel wrote: Hey Mike, Can you check if you see the same behavior on RELENG 8? Hi Jack, Yes, I will reboot the hardware with a RELENG_8 image tomorrow to test Not sure why this happens on Hartwell (82574) and not on 82571, that's an interesting bit, the

Re: bug with some em nics on RELENG_7

2009-11-18 Thread Jack Vogel
Hey Mike, Can you check if you see the same behavior on RELENG 8? There is a systemic problem having to do with when to enable interrupts that might be behind this. The em driver does not enable them until em_init_locked(), this is because until then its not ready to deal with a TX or RX interrup

bug with some em nics on RELENG_7

2009-11-18 Thread Mike Tancsa
On two Intel chipset Supermicro boards (X8STi and X8STE-0) using the onboard em nics (dmesg info below), I seem to have run into an issue where if I boot the box up with the cables unplugged, I cannot get the NICS to properly work post boot up. This is quite repeatable for me. So at boot tim