8.1-RELEASE em watchdog timeout broken?

[Jax]

"whenever my desktop PC"


Now this is where u FAIL. Use dubuntu or windows7 on desktop not FBSD
and don't try again.

Jax


On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:02 AM, Scott Johnson <scottj75074 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Under 8.0-RELEASE I would get warnings from em(4) in /var/log/messages about
>
> "watchdog timeouts" on em0 whenever my desktop PC connected to em0 was powered
> off. This was fine, except for the annoying warnings.
>
> Under 8.1-RELEASE I no longer get the warnings, and any time my desktop is
> powered off, when I turn it back on, it has no connectivity. The interface is
> dead until I log into the console and run:
> # ifconfig em0 down up
>
> The em(4) driver has changed a lot since 8.0-RELEASE. It seems this watchdog
> timeout is no longer working.
>
> The board is a Supermicro X7SPA-H with Intel 82574L GbE.
>
> Any ideas for debugging?
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