kern/51555: Kernel panic in ifconfig when setting IP address in vx0

[Lukas Ertl]

The following reply was made to PR kern/51555; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl at univie.ac.at>
To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at toybox.placo.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/51555: Kernel panic in ifconfig when setting IP address in
 vx0
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 15:50:20 +0200 (CEST)

 On Fri, 9 May 2003, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
 
 > 3com 3c595 has had a number of hardware revs to the card, please note
 > the cautions in the device driver manual page.  If you have multiple
 > 3c595 cards available, please test with some that are different hardware
 > revisions and see if the panics stop.  Also turn off busmastering on
 > the PCI bus, assuming your system supports it in the BIOS settings and
 > see if that makes any difference.
 >
 > And lastly, please check to see if this panic happens on both cold
 > and warm boot.
 
 It happens both on warm and cold boot. Bus mastering DMA can't be turned
 off, at least I can't find any such option in the BIOS :-/.
 
 I should also note that this panic does _not_ happen in 5.0-RELEASE (and
 not in 4.x).
 
 regards,
 le
 
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