yongari nfe problems
Pyun YongHyeon
pyunyh at gmail.com
Sat Mar 31 00:30:33 UTC 2007
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:01:53PM +0900, To Rainer Hurling wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 06:29:25AM +0100, Rainer Hurling wrote:
> > Over night my systems works well, only one message from network came up:
> >
> > nfe0: watchdog timeout (missed Tx interrupts) -- recovering
> > nfe0: watchdog timeout (missed Tx interrupts) -- recovering
> >
>
> I'm not sure this watchdog is related with VSC8601 PHY.
> However Mr. Darren also reported watchdog errors on MCP55 so I have
> to think again what makes MCP55 different.
>
> > In the morning I tried your patch for mii and PHY. Bootingverbose again
> > gives me:
> >
> > nfe0: <NVIDIA nForce MCP55 Networking Adapter> port 0xb000-0xb007 mem
> > 0xfbef3000-0xfbef3fff,0xfbefa800-0xfbefa8ff,0
> > xfbefa400-0xfbefa40f irq 22 at device 8.0 on pci0
> > nfe0: Reserved 0x1000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xfbef3000
> > nfe0: bpf attached
> > nfe0: Ethernet address: 00:16:17:95:d9:7c
> > miibus0: <MII bus> on nfe0
> > ciphy0: <VSC8601 10/100/1000TX PHY> PHY 1 on miibus0
> > ciphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT,
> > 1000baseT-FDX, auto
> > nfe0: [MPSAFE]
> > nfe0: [FILTER]
> >
> >
> > First, all seems to be ok. Network was up and connected. After a minute
> > I lost connection and the following messages appeared:
> >
> > miibus0: unknown CICADA PHY model 2
> > miibus0: unknown CICADA PHY model 2
> > miibus0: unknown CICADA PHY model 2
>
> Sorry, you can ignore this. I've ommitted a code needed in fixup code
> for VSC8601.
>
> > nfe0: watchdog timeout (missed Tx interrupts) -- recovering
> > nfe0: watchdog timeout (missed Tx interrupts) -- recovering
> > nfe0: watchdog timeout (missed Tx interrupts) -- recovering
> > nfe0: watchdog timeout (missed Tx interrupts) -- recovering
> > ...
> >
>
> This is real problem. I guess ciphy(4) failed to report correct link
> state so watchdog handler was activated. Apparently we **NEED** a copy
> of the documentation for the PHY. :-(
> You can revert the PHY changes and use ukphy(4) until the issue is
> resolved.
>
Would you try updated ciphy(4) patch?
I've got a successful report from nfe(4)/CS8201 user.
> >
> > Probably a little more work on the patches is needed?
> >
>
> Yes, ciphy(4) should be educated to access magic registers.
>
> > I am offline for the next ten hours. After that I could test any new
> > version ;-)
> >
>
> I'll let you know if I have a patch for the watchdog errors. In these
> days I have little time to focus on FreeBSD stuff so don't expect
> quick reply.
> Thank you very much for testing and your time.
>
> > Thank you very much,
> > Rainer
> >
> --
> Regards,
> Pyun YongHyeon
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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
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