sk ethernet driver: watchdog timeout

[Palle Girgensohn]

Hi,

I have an ASUS motherboard A7V8X-E Deluxe with onboard 10/100/1000 Mbit/s 
NIC from Marvell Semiconductor.

My problem is that it sometimes lock up with the error message

 sk0: watchdog timeout

The network is gone for a minute or so, then it comes back. It seems to 
work better when connected to a gigabit switch than when connected to a 100 
Mb/s switch, but it happens in both modes.

Happens on at least two different machines with different cables.

Any ideas? Bad driver? It also cannot use DHCP, dhclient just sits there, 
nothing happens. I've read a thread about this.

This is a fresh FreeBSD 4-STABLE system.

Regards,
Palle

ifconfig:

sk0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.1.187 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet6 fe80::20e:a6ff:fe15:2e3f%sk0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
        ether 00:0e:a6:15:2e:3f
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex,flag0,flag1>)
        status: active


FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #0: Sat Mar 13 18:11:47 CET 2004
    kudo at jordgubbe.pingpong.net:/.a/banan/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ASUS
Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ (2079.56-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x6a0  Stepping = 0
 Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA
,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
  AMD Features=0xc0400000<AMIE,DSP,3DNow!>
real memory  = 1073676288 (1048512K bytes)
avail memory = 1040752640 (1016360K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0436000.
Preloaded elf module "if_sk.ko" at 0xc043609c.
Preloaded elf module "snd_pcm.ko" at 0xc043613c.
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
md0: Malloc disk
Using $PIR table, 12 entries at 0xc00fdea0
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x10de, dev=0x01eb) at 0.1
pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x10de, dev=0x01ee) at 0.2
pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x10de, dev=0x01ed) at 0.3
pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x10de, dev=0x01ec) at 0.4
pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x10de, dev=0x01ef) at 0.5
isab0: <PCI to ISA bridge (vendor=10de device=0060)> at device 1.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x10de, dev=0x0064) at 1.1 irq 9
ohci0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xe9001000-0xe9001fff irq 11 at 
device 2.0 on pci0
usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb0: SMM does not respond, resetting
usb0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: (0x10de) OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
ohci1: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xe9002000-0xe9002fff irq 9 at 
device 2.1 on pci0
usb1: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb1: SMM does not respond, resetting
usb1: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: (0x10de) OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
ums0: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse, rev 2.00/18.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1
ums0: 6 buttons and Z dir.
ukbd0: Key Tronic Keytronic USB Keyboard, rev 1.10/1.02, addr 3, iclass 3/1
kbd1 at ukbd0
pci0: <USB controller> at 2.2 irq 11
pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x10de, dev=0x0066) at 4.0 irq 9
pcib1: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=10de device=006c)> at device 8.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
skc0: <Marvell Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xa000-0xa0ff mem 
0xe8000000-0xe8003fff irq 7 at device 4.0 on pci1
skc0: Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter
sk0: <Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Yukon> on skc0
sk0: Ethernet address: 00:0e:a6:15:2e:3f
miibus0: <MII bus> on sk0
e1000phy0: <Marvell Semiconductor 88E1000* gigabit PHY> on miibus0
e1000phy0:  1000baseTX-FDX, 100baseTX-FDX, 100baseTX, 10baseTX-FDX, 
10baseTX, auto
pci1: <unknown card> (vendor=0x1274, dev=0x1371) at 7.0 irq 11
xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xa800-0xa87f mem 
0xe8004000-0xe800407f irq 9 at device 10.0 on pci1
xl0: Ethernet address: 00:10:5a:12:00:87
miibus1: <MII bus> on xl0
xlphy0: <3Com internal media interface> on miibus1
xlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
pci1: <unknown card> (vendor=0x1095, dev=0x3112) at 11.0 irq 11
atapci0: <nVIDIA nForce2 ATA133 controller> port 0xf000-0xf00f at device 
9.0 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x10de, dev=0x006e) at 13.0 irq 9
pcib2: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=10de device=01e8)> at device 30.0 on pci0
pci3: <PCI bus> on pcib2
pci3: <ATI model 4151 graphics accelerator> at 0.0 irq 11
pci3: <ATI model 4171 graphics accelerator> at 0.1
orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 
0xc0000-0xccfff,0xd0000-0xd3fff,0xd4000-0xd57ff,0xd6000-0xd6fff on isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
fdc0: ready for input in output
fdc0: cmd 3 failed at out byte 1 of 3
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
device_probe_and_attach: atkbd0 attach returned 6
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
ad0: 9641MB <IBM-DTTA-371010> [19590/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a