i386/93893: Boot panic from Netgear GA311

[Kent Stewart]

>Number:         93893
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Boot panic from Netgear GA311
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Feb 27 09:30:05 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Kent Stewart <kstewart at owt.com>
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #13: Sun Feb 26 20:58:16 PST 2006 root at owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TOPAZ i386

	AMD-2400+ XP, Intel P-III 866.
	FreeBSD RELENG_5 and RELENG_6
	Netgear NICs based on RealTek 8169S Single chip Gigabit

>Description:
	The re NICS will cause a panic at boot  with the message that re0: diagnostic 
	failed to receive packet in loopback mode.

	This occurs before you have a /swap device to dmp to. Photographs of the panic
	are at
	http://owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com/panic-0.jpg panic
	http://owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com/panic-1.jpg 1st page of trace
	http://owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com/panic-2.jpg 2nd page of trace

>How-To-Repeat:
	It occurs rarely when you do a reboot; however, you can make
	it fail more often if you have the NIC in an XP machine, transfer
	a file, and then do a restart and boot FreeBSD.
>Fix:

	None known.

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