kern/55727: rl(4) not working in recent 4.8-STABLE: watchdog timeout

Eugene Grosbein eugen at kuzbass.ru
Mon Sep 1 23:40:14 PDT 2003


The following reply was made to PR kern/55727; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen at kuzbass.ru>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/55727: rl(4) not working in recent 4.8-STABLE: watchdog timeout
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 14:28:46 +0800

 Bill Paul wrote:
 > 
 > Ok. I went out and bought a D-Link 530+ card with the same chip you
 > have and used the latest (.18) driver, and it works fine for me.
 > I am really not sure what's broken. There are only two small things
 > that _might_ have bearing on the problem. To test my theory, download
 > the driver from:
 > 
 > http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/RealTek/4-stable
 > 
 > Copy the version of if_rl.c and if_rlreg.h from that location into
 > /sys/pci and see if they work.
 > 
 > -Bill
 
 H!
 
 I think I've found traces of breakage.
 
 My kernel contains options DEVICE_POLLING. However, I did not enable
 polling using sysctl. Now I've got your last version and deleted
 DEVICE_POLLING from the kernel. And all cards started to work as before.
 
 Hope this will help.
 
 Eugene Grosbein


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