amd64/96516: FreeBSD/amd64 intermittent Network-Problems

[John Baldwin]

On Monday 01 May 2006 13:00, Ralf Folkerts wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR amd64/96516; it has been noted by GNATS.
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> From: Ralf Folkerts <ralf.folkerts at gmx.de>
> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org,  ralf.folkerts at gmx.de
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> Subject: Re: amd64/96516: FreeBSD/amd64 intermittent Network-Problems
> Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 18:52:40 +0200
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>  Hi John,
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>  thanks for your reply! Here's an excerpt from Linux' lspci -v:
>  
>  05:07.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] 
>  (rev 30
>  )
>          Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C905B Fast Etherlink XL 10/100
>          Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 22
>          I/O ports at c880 [size=128]
>          Memory at feaffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
>          Expansion ROM at 50000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>          Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1

Ok, so it's on IRQ 22.  Does linux have any other devices on IRQ 21?

>  When I put the "hw.pci5.7.INTA.irq=21" in the Loader I don't get any 
>  Network at all:

Ok, so it's not that xl0 is actually on irq 21.

It would be helpful to know which device is suddently spouting
interrupts.  Can you make it go away by removing the sound or
USB drivers?

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