www/86888: new motherboard for the amd64

Tue Dec 20 05:51:20 PST 2005

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, JoaoBR wrote:

> On Tuesday 20 December 2005 07:44, spil oss wrote:
> > Jo?o,
> >
> > As for the sk, I think you're running into a different problem which
> > I'm told has something to do with Interrupt-routing. For my ancient
> > 3com 3c575 the workaround was to use polling on the card (although I'm
> > hoping for a fix as polling takes too much resource on that ancient
> > laptop). This does require a kernel with polling support.
> > See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/87114
> > Maybe it helps someone here if you list the specific model/version of
> > the NIC that uses this SysKonnect driver.
> >
> > Have you tried booting with acpi disabled?
> >
> 
> The Asus A8V does not boot with acpi disabled and polling did not
> made any difference and I believe sk do not support polling
> 
> The IF is onboard and probed as:
> 
> skc0: <Marvell Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xb400-0xb4ff mem
> 0xfa500000-0xfa503fff irq 17 at device 10.0 on pci0
> skc0: Marvell Yukon Lite Gigabit Ethernet rev. (0x9)
> sk0: <Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Yukon> on skc0
> 
> 
> thanks, Jo?o
> 
> 
well what version of 6.0 do you have? I found that once you sup to
the latest this problem dissapeared with my MB as it is the same as
yours and here the output when booting, I keep it short as I have
other NIC as well:
-----------------------------Snip-------------------------------------
Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993,
1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights
reserved.
FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #5: Tue Dec  6 21:20:19 CET 2005
    ewinter at lobo.ewinter.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/lobo
ACPI APIC Table: <A M I  OEMAPIC >
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ (2002.58-MHz K8-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x10ff0  Stepping = 0
  Features=0x78bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CM
OV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2>
  AMD Features=0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,<b25>,LM,3DNow+,3DNow>
real memory  = 2147155968 (2047 MB)
avail memory = 2065616896 (1969 MB)

[...]

skc0: Marvell Yukon Lite Gigabit Ethernet rev. A3(0x7)
sk0: <Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Yukon> on skc0
sk0: Ethernet address: 00:11:2f:d2:a9:dd
miibus0: <MII bus> on sk0
e1000phy0: <Marvell 88E1000 Gigabit PHY> on miibus0
e1000phy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,
1000baseTX-FDX, auto
xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xb000-0xb07f mem
0xfac00000-0xfac0
007f irq 18 at device 13.0 on pci0
miibus1: <MII bus> on xl0
ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus1
ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
xl0: Ethernet address: 00:04:75:74:c7:df

and here the ifconfig:

lobo ewinter 502-->ifconfig
sk0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::211:2fff:fed2:a9dd%sk0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
        inet 192.168.1.44 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        ether 00:11:2f:d2:a9:dd
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX
<full-duplex,flag0,flag1>)
        status: active
xl0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        options=9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
        ether 00:04:75:74:c7:df
        media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
        status: no carrier
plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> mtu
1500
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
-----------------------------Snip-------------------------------------

the xl0 is not used and just a spare as I used it with 5.4 as I had
problems with the skc driver. If you want the full output or config,
then mail me and I will send it to you or post it here if anyone is
interested.

Ernst

> 
> > Spil.
> >
> > On 12/20/05, JoaoBR <joao at matik.com.br> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 20 December 2005 06:32, spil oss wrote:
> > > > After installing 6-RELEASE using
> > > > ftp://ftp.nl.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.0/6.0-R
> > > >ELEA SE-i386-disc1.iso nve is giving me the device timeouts (as I
> > > > expected) http://www.nl.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html
> > > > reports nve being fine in 6-BETA5 though.
> > > >
> > > > After timeout (64) the network was gone.
> > >
> > > I have similar problems with R-6 amd64 but with sk and fxp driver
> > >
> > > without any reason I get such events
> > >
> > > sk0: link state changed to UP
> > > sk0: watchdog timeout
> > > sk0: link state changed to DOWN
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > fxp0: DMA timeout
> > > fxp0: SCB timeout: 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xffff
> > > fxp0: SCB timeout: 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xffff
> > >
> > > for sure the HUB is Ok and no other physical problem
> > > the sk error ocurres normally in idle hours and the fxp anytime
> > >
> > > when the sk event happens the traffic goes still through
> > >
> > > when the fxp error appears traffic stops on that interface and the IF
> > > status change to
> > > status: active
> > > media Ethernet autoselect (none)
> > >
> > > the xl I have installed do not give any problem at all
> > >
> > > this is an ASUS A8V with amd64 processor, I thought this could be an acpi
> > > problem because the dsdt is giving lots of errors when compiling it,
> > > indeed it does not compile at all.
> > >
> > > I do not have this problems with the same HW and 5.4-R
> > >
> > > Jo?o
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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