Apparent fxp regression in FreeBSD 8.4-RC3

[Michael L. Squires]

I'm not sure this is a kernel issue.

I re-installed 8.3Release p8 (have to get work done!) and then installed a 
8.4 Prerelease kernel (I'm still running cvsup, going to svn is a number 
of crisis problems down from the list of things to fix today).

Booted with the 8.4 Prerelease kernel but using the 8.3R p8 world -  no 
problems with fxp0.

I've tried that twice, same results.

This suggests to me that the problem may not be in 8.4 at all, but in some 
weirdness of my setup.

The motherboard is old; it's one of the Supermicro Xeon boards using the 
Serverworks chipset which they had to produce when the Intel support 
chipset turned out to be buggy, which is a number of years ago.

I have another box at work which I will set up as my NAT box (the system 
in question is my NAT box) from scratch with 8.4 and then take the current 
box off-line, and then reinstall 8.4 from scratch on that system.  When 
that is done I'll report.

This probably won't happen until later this week, Friday.

No issues with 8.4 with the other two systems at home, one a Tyan S4882 
and the other a Tyan S2882.

Mike Squires