Constant stream of errors on msk0

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 10:58 +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:40:37PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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>  > Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
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>  > > Does the other GigE work without issues on Cisco 6500?
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>  > I haven't tried this card on another gigE switch.  However, the same
>  > switch port on the same switch did not exhibit these problems with the
>  > myk driver under 6.X.  At least as far as I know my desk port was not
>  > moved in the IDF.
>  > 
>  > > 
>  > > The msk(4) can have a bug with autonegotiation but I've never seen
>  > > negotiation mismatches on msk(4). Whilst writing the driver I've
>  > > checked speed/link negotiation against gigabit switch and directly
>  > > connected GigE and I found nothing unusual. Of course, that does
>  > > not necessarily mean msk(4) is perfect for link negotiation.
>  > > 
>  > > Because you've said myk(4) works well on Cisco 6500 I have to
>  > > diagnose the issue. When setting the link manually on gigabit
>  > > environments, nomally one side should be master and the other the
>  > > slave so how about forcing master bit on msk(4) side?
>  > > 
>  > > #ifconfig msk0 media 1000baseTX mediaopt full-duplex link0
>  > >                                                      ^^^^^
>  > 
>  > This does not help.  I tried 1000BaseTX/full, 100BaseTX/full, and
>  > 100BaseTX/half.  All three exhibited the same problem with constantly
>  > incrementing input errors.
>  > 
> Hi,
> 
> Are you still interesting in fixing autonegotiation issue on msk(4)
> at 1000bps?
> If so please try attached patch and let me know result.

Of course I'd be interested, but since the initial posting, I've moved
to a Catalyst 2950 switch, and I have not seen any autoneg problems with
my msk and that switch.  I would not be able to adequately test this
patch.  Thanks for the follow through, though.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome at FreeBSD.org
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