em(4) problems.

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 06 May 2004 04:47 pm, Scott Long wrote:
> Søren Schmidt wrote:
> > Petri Helenius wrote:
> >> I´m highly confident that this is a case of integrated "CSA" ethernet
> >> with broken BIOS. I suspect you get an message about that when booting.
> >
> > Nope. no messages to that effect, oh and it works in windows(tm)...
> >
> > The last thing I see if I try to use em0 is:
> > em0: Link is up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
> > and then the system locks up hard.
>
> I'm looking a t a similar system right now and it definitely looks like
> an interrupt routing problem, not a driver problem.  The interesting
> thing is that (with 5.2-current as of two days ago) disabling neither
> ACPI nor APIC helps.  I guess that we might want to get John Baldwin
> involved.

Ugh, does the interrupt storm stuff in -current help at all?

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