something wrong with fxp driver ?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 01:27:28PM +0800, Ying-Chieh Liao wrote:
> my previous kernel is about May 10, and the fxp works fine for me
> but I cvsuped and make world/kernel yesterday (6/26), and then terrible thing
> happens... the connection becomes v...e...r...y... s...l...o...w...
> my ping time to the gateway is about 8000ms (but sometimes 20ms)
> 
> I've browse the mail archive of -current and -net, and I've noticed some
> similar problems with fxp (device timeout), and I also get this message
> (fxp0 device timeout) in my dmesg output, but I cant find out any solution :<
> Is there any workaround, or patches ?

Check that it's negotiating the media type and options correctly.  On
the gohan machines it has been failing to negotiate full-duplex mode
for the past few months, leading to LAN transfer speeds on the order
of 20kps unless I set the media options explicitly.

Kris
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