7.1 Release broke my box

John Hein jhein at timing.com
Sun Jan 11 19:37:48 PST 2009


Markus Hitter wrote at 01:31 +0100 on Jan 12, 2009:
 > Last Friday, after seeing ext2fs doesn't work with the 7.0 kernel, I  
 > decided to do yet another step and upgrade to 7.1 Release. The  
 > virtual machine for building tinybsd setup and ran flawlessly, but a  
 > tinybsd image built from it doesn't like networking any longer. The  
 > non-working box is a Geode-based Flepo Alpha, which uses the re  
 > network driver.

What happens if you build a kernel with the 7.0 version of
sys/dev/re/if_re.c?  You may have to roll back sys/pci/if_rlreg.h too.

What happens to the link light while these things are happening?


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