Panic in tulip_txprobe

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Dec 21 10:58:32 PST 2005


On Wednesday 21 December 2005 01:07 pm, Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:21:12AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > This is more fallout from Ruslan's IF_LLADDR changes.   The simplest fix
> > would be to change tulip_txprobe() to use sc->tulip_enaddr rather than
> > IF_LLADDR prior to the call to ether_ifattach().  Hmmm,
> > tulip_addr_filter() can also be called from tulip_init_locked() via
> > tulip_linkup() via tulip_media_poll() as well.  *sigh*  I hate to call
> > ether_ifattach() before the chip is actually known to be in a working
> > state though which is the other alternative.  You can try this patch
> > which uses sc->tulip_enaddr early on:
>
> It's booting with your patch.
> If you need a functional test let me know - so far the card is just in,
> because it's a combo card, network connection is done using an fxp card.

Booting is good. :)  That's mostly what it changes.  The only other thing to 
test would be to hook a cable up to it and make sure it works, then change 
the MAC address via ifconfig and make sure it can figure out its link state 
ok and still work.

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