FreeBSD 5-STABLE, MSI KT880 , fxp and SCB timeouts

[Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:52:52AM -0600, Jon Noack wrote:
> Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote:
> >On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:33:41PM -0600, Jon Noack wrote:
> >>On 02/23/05 21:30, Dan Nelson wrote:
> >>>In the last episode (Feb 23), Jon Noack said:
> >>>>On 02/23/05 20:06, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote:
> >>>>>My last motherboard burned down to ashes so I got myself a brand
> >>>>>(after 2 weeks) new MSI KT880. I am getting some weird results.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>1) fxp intel etherxpress 10/100 network cards report SCB timeout
> >>>>>as well as achieving ridiculously low transfer rates of 600
> >>>>>Bytes/second. Well, I got 10 KBytes/sec once but that does not count
> >>>>>since a side box gets more than 50KB/s ;-) on the same hub. Oh, I've
> >>>>>already switched hub ports, rj45 cables and fxp cards.
> >>>>
> >>>>Duplex mismatch?  You say "hub" and not "switch", so you might need
> >>>>to force the card to half-duplex.  Oddly enough, the fxp(4) man page
> >>>>doesn't include half-duplex as a media option.  Surely it supports
> >>>>it...
> >
> >Actually, it is a 5 port switch (10/100 TX). Any thoughts? I can
> >provide as much information as necessary. By the way, another
> >computer using exactly a fxp connected to the same switch works
> >nicely.
> 
> Try forcing full-duplex?  The output of "ifconfig" would also be helpful 
> (you can sanitize IP and MAC addresses)?

  IP/MAC addresses and netmasks sanitized

fxp0: flags=19843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,LINK0,MULTICAST,POLLING> mtu 1500
	options=4b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,POLLING>
	inet 10.0.0.2 netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast 10.0.0.127
	inet 10.0.0.3 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 10.0.0.3
	ether 00:ff:00:ff:00:ff
	media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
	status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 

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