diffs to add newer Intel ATA and ICHSMB IDs

2006-06-01 Thread Jack Vogel
I occasionally run into issues that newer PCI device IDs are not yet supported, these in particular are on a new box I am working on. Can someone see that these changes get integrated please :) Cheers, Jack --- dev/ata/ata-chipset.orig.c Fri Jun 2 05:39:18 2006 +++ dev/ata/ata-chipset.c

long timeout on boot

2006-06-01 Thread Jack Vogel
Both on my own machine, and on systems in our test group's lab, we notice these long (like 2min maybe?) delays near the end of boot. It seems to be ATA/SATA related. It has just announced the one disk it discovered, then shows the CPUs launched, and then it just sits printing nothing for, like I

Re: long timeout on boot

2006-06-02 Thread Jack Vogel
On 6/2/06, Gavin Atkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 15:30 -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: Both on my own machine, and on systems in our test group's lab, we notice these long (like 2min maybe?) delays near the end of boot. It seems to be ATA/SATA related. It has just announced

Re: Dual Opteron system will not run SMP

2006-06-05 Thread Jack Vogel
On 6/5/06, Pete French [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not that 6.1 is out the dor I monder if anyone wuld like to give me a hand with an SMP problem I have. I am running a system with two Opterorn 242 processors in a K8D Master-F motherboard, each with 512M of RAM attached. The processors both work

Re: Dual Opteron system will not run SMP

2006-06-05 Thread Jack Vogel
On 6/5/06, Pete French [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You say you can boot 'safe', can you boot with just ACPI disabled? Not using an SMP kernel, no. I did another experiment though, I installed amd64 onto an IDe drive, and that will boot SMP with APCI disabled, but still only recognises a single

Re: Dual Opteron system will not run SMP

2006-06-08 Thread Jack Vogel
On 6/7/06, Pete French [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If just non-ACPI isnt sufficient, the other thing SAFE does is turn off disk DMA. I have an as-yet unreleased system that has this same type of issue, and the problem is that two PCI device ID's are not recognized, so maybe that will be your

Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ...

2006-06-26 Thread Jack Vogel
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Re: IBM xSeries 336 dual Xeon hangs on boot when APIC enabled

2006-08-13 Thread Jack Vogel
On 8/13/06, Arjan van Leeuwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to boot FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE/amd64 on an IBM xSeries 336 machine with dual Xeons 3.2GHz installed. The installation was successful, but if I try to boot the SMP kernel, it hangs after detection of SCSI and ATA devices (possibly

Re: diffs to add newer Intel ATA and ICHSMB IDs

2006-08-20 Thread Jack Vogel
On 8/20/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/1/06, Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I occasionally run into issues that newer PCI device IDs are not yet supported, these in particular are on a new box I am working on. Can someone see that these changes get integrated please

Re: diffs to add newer Intel ATA and ICHSMB IDs

2006-08-21 Thread Jack Vogel
On 8/21/06, Christian Brueffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not exactly the above patch, but a similar one: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-chipset.c?rev=1.169content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup This is likely to be MFCed before 6.2 gets released. Oh, this is great news,

Re: Fail to install the driver of the on-board LAN Card

2006-08-21 Thread Jack Vogel
On 8/20/06, Darren Pilgrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johnie Wong wrote: Dear All, I am the user of FreeBSD 6.1. Recently, i buy a new server for my company which is a Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 (1.86GHz) with Intel D946GZIS mainboard, 2GB Consair DDR2 Ram, 3Ware 9500S-4LP, and 4X Seagate 250GB

Re: tcp/udp performance

2006-08-30 Thread Jack Vogel
On 8/30/06, Danny Braniss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ever since 6.1 I've seen fluctuations in the performance of the em (Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet). motherboard OBN (On Board NIC) -- 1- Intel

Re: em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting (6.1-STABLE)

2006-09-13 Thread Jack Vogel
On 9/13/06, Ronald Klop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Them manual page em(4) mentions trying another cable when the watchdog timeout happens, so I tried that. But it didn't help. Is there anything I can test to (help) debug this? It happens a lot when my machine is under load. (100% CPU) Is it

Re: em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting (6.1-STABLE)

2006-09-15 Thread Jack Vogel
On 9/14/06, David C. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: watchdogs mean that the transmit ring is not being cleaned, so the question is what is your machine doing at 100% cpu, if its that busy the network watchdogs may just be a side effect and not the real problem? I get them with a

Re: em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting (6.1-STABLE)

2006-09-15 Thread Jack Vogel
On 9/15/06, Martin Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm also seeing these on a Supermicro PDSMi board with a recent stable. Please tell me what debugging info that is needed to fix this. /Martin FreeBSD mailbox 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #1: Sun Sep 10 17:43:15 CEST 2006 [EMAIL

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Jack Vogel
As an optional data point you might wish to consider the Intel driver I am about to release, it has everything that 6.2 does EXCEPT the interrupt changes. I kept those out because I didn't want to break backward compatibility. If someone that has repro'd this problem wants to check this speak up

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread Jack Vogel
Absolutely, its an architecture not a brand name, should call it x86_64 as often done in Linux. If you run only a 32bit kernel on that system of yours you're cheating yourself out of performance anyway. slurp down an iso and boot that before you go pulling dimms and such :) Jack On 9/27/06,

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread Jack Vogel
On 9/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Absolutely, its an architecture not a brand name, should call it x86_64 as often done in Linux. If you run only a 32bit kernel on that system of yours you're cheating yourself out of performance anyway. slurp down an iso and boot that

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread Jack Vogel
On 9/27/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no idea if the problem is related to PAE, but have you tried booting an amd64 kernel on the system? This is an Intel Pentium 4 (D) system. Would the AMD64 kernel even work? I'm not an Intel sales rep, but I

Re: Fw: em0 problem

2006-10-17 Thread Jack Vogel
One can't do anything with this kind of information, think about it as one that has to fix the issue, we need: - exact model numbers on the system or mb - pciconf -l so we can see the real version of the adapter - What exactly was the driver version that last worked, and what is the

em network issues

2006-10-18 Thread Jack Vogel
I think there may be a few different problems going on with the em driver on 6.2 that are being lumped under the general description of network hangs. In order to solve these I need a reproducible failure, either on a system here at Intel, or someone who is willing to be a remote guinea pig :) I

Re: em network issues

2006-10-18 Thread Jack Vogel
On 10/18/06, Kip Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Sun T2000 that I generally run with the em driver from as of July in order to avoid watchdog timeouts. One trivial scenario that reproduces the problem with 100% consistency is running the ghc configure script (a 20kloc shell script) over

Re: em network issues

2006-10-18 Thread Jack Vogel
On 10/18/06, Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is also a hardware eeprom issue on systems with an 82573 type NIC on SOME systems. There is a utility to fix that, if you and on HP ? your system does not have 573 NICs, (what you show are 546) do you have others that are? Jack

Re: em network issues

2006-10-18 Thread Jack Vogel
Awesome, this is the kind of data that will help. I'll see what I can do to get something repro'd. Jack On 10/18/06, Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le 19/10/2006 01:03:40+0200, Albert Shih a écrit Le 18/10/2006 10:46:30-0700, Jack Vogel a écrit I think there may be a few

Re: em network issues

2006-10-19 Thread Jack Vogel
On 10/19/06, Remko Lodder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kip Macy wrote: On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Jack Vogel wrote: I'm a bit confused from the way you worded this, do you have watchdogs with em, or you use em to avoid them? I have watchdogs with the current (post vendor update) em driver

Re: em network issues

2006-10-19 Thread Jack Vogel
On 10/19/06, Erwin Lansing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 11:40:16AM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: On 10/19/06, Remko Lodder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kip Macy wrote: On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Jack Vogel wrote: I'm a bit confused from the way you worded this, do you have watchdogs

Re: em network issues

2006-10-19 Thread Jack Vogel
The engineer in our test group has installed 6.2 BETA2 and attempted via a number of tests to reproduce this problem, the machine even shares the em interrupt with usb, and yet so far he has been unsuccessful. I have an Intel driver about to be released, it is close, but not identical to the 6.2

Re: em network issues

2006-10-19 Thread Jack Vogel
On 10/19/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 02:18:13PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: The engineer in our test group has installed 6.2 BETA2 and attempted via a number of tests to reproduce this problem, the machine even shares the em interrupt with usb, and yet so

Re: em network issues

2006-10-20 Thread Jack Vogel
On 10/20/06, Bill Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] On 10/19/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 02:18:13PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: The engineer in our test group has installed 6.2 BETA2 and attempted via

Re: em network issues

2006-10-20 Thread Jack Vogel
On 10/20/06, Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Paul wrote: [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] On 10/19/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 02:18:13PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: The engineer in our test group has installed 6.2 BETA2

Re: em network issues

2006-10-20 Thread Jack Vogel
On 10/20/06, Bill Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is exactly the test that Andre and I were running, though only in one direction (I think due to lack of hardware for a full test). Yes, but did you do it with a Smartbits though, or just with a couple of other FreeBSD machines?

Re: em network issues

2006-10-20 Thread Jack Vogel
On 10/20/06, Bill Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Another thing that might be handy is improving the watchdog timeout message so that it dumps the state of the ICR and ICM registers (and maybe some other interesting driver and/or device state). The timeout implies no interrupts

Re: device em0 not showing up at boot

2005-11-29 Thread Jack Vogel
On 11/29/05, Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:29 AM 29/11/2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Forrest Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have an older PC (Compaq AP200) that I'm running FreeBSD-6.0 on. I have an Intel Gigabit interface installed in one of the PCI slots, along

Re: device em0 not showing up at boot

2005-11-29 Thread Jack Vogel
On 11/29/05, Forrest Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jack, Mike, Thank you for your responses. Sorry it took me a day to get to this. Here is the output per the above command. Thanks again, Forrest ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:13:0: class=0x02 card=0x11768086 chip=0x10768086

Re: Intel S5000PAL board, onboard ether gige interfaces working?

2006-10-27 Thread Jack Vogel
On 10/27/06, Kurt Jaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Can someone report success with the onboard GigE ports of an Intel S5000PAL board ? Thanks for any report 8-} This is one of our new systems, the onboard NICs require either the latest driver you can download from Intel, or the community

Re: Intel device IDs (Intel S5000PAL board, onboard ether gige interfaces working?)

2006-10-27 Thread Jack Vogel
/2006, Jack Vogel wrote: On 10/27/06, Kurt Jaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Can someone report success with the onboard GigE ports of an Intel S5000PAL board ? Thanks for any report 8-} This is one of our new systems, the onboard NICs require either the latest driver you can download from Intel

Re: Intel device IDs (Intel S5000PAL board, onboard ether gige interfaces working?)

2006-10-27 Thread Jack Vogel
On 10/27/06, Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:28 PM 10/27/2006, Jack Vogel wrote: Sorry, but you dont want to do this. This is a hybrid sorta NIC, the PHY is only 10/100, but the MAC is a Gig part. Get the latest em driver and load that, guess what, it will work. Hi, I

Re: Intel device IDs (Intel S5000PAL board, onboard ether gige interfaces working?)

2006-10-27 Thread Jack Vogel
On 10/27/06, Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:52 PM 10/27/2006, Jack Vogel wrote: HMMM, ok, maybe I jumped the gun, if this thing says ICH7 then its not the NIC I was talking about, thats ICH8. I just didnt think there were any 10/100 parts that werent already in the fxp driver. I

New em driver

2006-10-27 Thread Jack Vogel
After a conference call today, it was decided that a merge of my Intel driver base and the STABLE code would take place. This code undoes the INTR_FAST/taskqueue approach for right now. Work will continue to get that to work, but the hope is that this driver will be more stable for the 6.2

Re: New em driver

2006-10-28 Thread Jack Vogel
On 10/28/06, Nikolay Pavlov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, 27 October 2006 at 18:44:37 -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: After a conference call today, it was decided that a merge of my Intel driver base and the STABLE code would take place. This code undoes the INTR_FAST/taskqueue approach

82542 ID is back

2006-10-28 Thread Jack Vogel
Contrary to what I was told there are still users with 82542 hardware. I promised that if anyone spoke up I'd replace it, so its back. So Intel test and validation isnt always right, who knew :) Enjoy, Jack ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: new em-driver still broken

2006-10-31 Thread Jack Vogel
On 10/31/06, Mikhail Teterin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: понеділок 30 жовтень 2006 23:23, Mikhail Teterin написав: Ok. I rebooted and restarted the heavy traffic dump (DEVICE_POLLING in kernel, but without polling actialy enabled). The dump got underway, although the amount of sys load was

Re: new em-driver still broken

2006-10-31 Thread Jack Vogel
On 10/31/06, Mikhail Teterin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, it stalls even with polling disabled. It just takes A LOT longer, as I just found out. Instead of minutes, it takes hours of heavey traffict to stall, but it still happens. Pressing a key still wakes it up... -mi This

Re: new em-driver still broken

2006-10-31 Thread Jack Vogel
On 10/31/06, Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/06, Mikhail Teterin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, it stalls even with polling disabled. It just takes A LOT longer, as I just found out. Instead of minutes, it takes hours of heavey traffict to stall, but it still happens

Re: new em-driver still broken

2006-10-31 Thread Jack Vogel
On 10/31/06, Joerg Pernfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:46:10 -0800 Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So like : options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # POSIX P1003_1B real-time extensions Looks like a special option that most probably dont have

Re: New em driver - still watchdog timeouts

2006-11-02 Thread Jack Vogel
Yes, I know this is still happening. I also have pretty good data now that its a bogus problem, meaning due to scheduling issues the watchdog does not get reset even though the system is just fine as far as transmit descriptors is concerned. I have a patch that detects this and keeps the watchdog

Re: New em driver - still watchdog timeouts

2006-11-02 Thread Jack Vogel
On 11/2/06, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:43:34AM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: Yes, I know this is still happening. I also have pretty good data now that its a bogus problem, meaning due to scheduling issues the watchdog does not get reset even though

Re: New em driver breaks jumbo frames

2006-11-02 Thread Jack Vogel
Yes, this is the second report I've had, other came to me personally. I'm looking into it. Jack On 11/2/06, Craig Boston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't have much time right now, but wanted to report that the new em driver in -STABLE breaks jumbo frame support for me. With it in the kernel

Re: [PATCH] Intel PRO/100 VE extra PCI ID

2006-11-03 Thread Jack Vogel
On 11/3/06, M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rink Springer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Hi people, : : Recently, I installed FreeBSD on a Tyan GS14 barebone, which houses an : bge(4) and a fxp(4). However, FreeBSD does not recognize the on-board :

New em patch for 6.2 BETA 3

2006-11-03 Thread Jack Vogel
I have been hard at work trying to understand and fix the remaining issues with the em driver. What I have here is a patch that has gotten rid of any issues that I can reproduce. It solves the intermittent watchdogs that have been happening. It also fixes the problem noted with jumbo frame tx

Re: New em patch for 6.2 BETA 3

2006-11-03 Thread Jack Vogel
On 11/3/06, Kip Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you create a patch against -CURRENT I can test on sun4v. The timeouts with em on sun4v are so severe that I have to use the driver from June for any kind of workload. -Kip I believe Gleb was going to merge code to current so you should have

Re: em driver testing

2006-11-06 Thread Jack Vogel
Well, so run 6.2 BETA3 plus the patch I posted as Patrick mentioned and then report on that. You've got a lot of potential problem areas here, I have no experience with samba on FreeBSD. And that motherboard only has PCI as I recall, yes? Still, it should get rid of the watchdogs unless you have

Re: em driver testing

2006-11-06 Thread Jack Vogel
On 11/6/06, Adrian Chadd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiousity - why wasn't the offending MPSAFE related changes to em just reverted after discovering the em instability? The driver -was- stable a couple of months ago, no? Actually it was not. Some reports have cited problems back to

Re: em driver testing

2006-11-07 Thread Jack Vogel
On 11/7/06, Clayton Milos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jack I patched the driver and re-compiled the kernel and userland. All appears well with the em driver now. No more errors on it. I am getting watchdog timeouts on the xl driver now though. It was happenning before at the same time as the

Re: em driver testing

2006-11-07 Thread Jack Vogel
On 11/7/06, Mike Jakubik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clayton Milos wrote: Hi Jack I patched the driver and re-compiled the kernel and userland. All appears well with the em driver now. No more errors on it. I am getting watchdog timeouts on the xl driver now though. It was happenning before

Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-08 Thread Jack Vogel
This patch is an evolution of the last one I sent out. It has a couple of minor corrections, like a bad forward decl in the header. The last patch has had quite a bit of testing and all reports have been positive. The only complaint was from Gleb who says he needs to keep his beloved infinite

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-08 Thread Jack Vogel
wanted to get this code back into the driver conditionally before RELEASE. Does that answer your question Sam? Regards, Jack On 11/9/06, Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch is an evolution of the last one I sent out. It has a couple of minor corrections, like a bad forward decl

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-09 Thread Jack Vogel
Yes, they are incompatible, I suppose there should be something that makes it impossible to do, but not building should be a clue :) Jack On 11/9/06, Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:19 PM 11/8/2006, Jack Vogel wrote: BUT, I've added the FAST_INTR changes back into the code, so

Re: Proposed 6.2 em RELEASE patch

2006-11-10 Thread Jack Vogel
On 11/10/06, Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some more tests. I tried again with what was committed to today's RELENG_6. I am guessing its pretty well the same patch. Polling is the only way to avoid livelock at a high pps rate. Does anyone know of any simple tools to measure end to end

Re: EM stability

2006-11-10 Thread Jack Vogel
On 11/10/06, Barry Boes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luck ran out. Hard must press the reset button hang. No console messages. The system was idle at the time. Is there anything you'd like me to do to attempt to narrow down the problem or get debugging output? I do not know if the freeze

Re: em interrupt storm

2006-11-13 Thread Jack Vogel
On 11/13/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just experienced an interrupt storm on an em device that disabled a server until I could reboot it. My initial research turned up this thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-November/058336.html Which seems related,

Re: 6.2-RC1 em(4) issue - freezes during CD boot

2006-12-12 Thread Jack Vogel
On 12/12/06, Chris Buechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm attempting to install 6.2-RC1 on a box that ran 5.3, 5.4, 6.0, and 6.1 for the past few years, but the 6.2-RC1 CD won't boot. After it detects the em0 NIC, before it gets into sysinstall, it freezes solid. I've let it sit there for over

Re: 6.2-RC1 em(4) issue - freezes during CD boot

2006-12-12 Thread Jack Vogel
On 12/12/06, Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/12/06, Chris Buechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm attempting to install 6.2-RC1 on a box that ran 5.3, 5.4, 6.0, and 6.1 for the past few years, but the 6.2-RC1 CD won't boot. After it detects the em0 NIC, before it gets into sysinstall

Re: 6.2-RC1 em(4) issue - freezes during CD boot

2006-12-13 Thread Jack Vogel
On 12/12/06, Chris Buechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack Vogel wrote: UH, can't do anything if you don't give any information, saying its a 'box' and it has an 'em' is useless. We have installed RC1 on a number of systems without problem. Yes, I understand that. I was after what info

Re: 6.2-RC1 em(4) issue - freezes during CD boot

2006-12-13 Thread Jack Vogel
On 12/13/06, Chris Buechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack Vogel wrote: I need the PCI ID of that NIC, just to be sure that I can't reproduce this, but I doubt it, pciconf -l Here's the pciconf -l from 6.2-RC1, custom kernel (copy of GENERIC, minus 'device em') [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class

Re: Intel PRO/1000 PT Desktop NIC, PCIe 1x supported in FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-01-07 Thread Jack Vogel
On 1/7/07, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 04:56:26PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello, the company I'm working is about to purchae some additional NICs for some replacement built-in NICs of nForce 405-based desktop PCs. I would like to purchase the above

Re: 6.2 Release

2007-01-10 Thread Jack Vogel
On 1/10/07, Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott T. Hildreth wrote: Does anyone know if the Release is still going to happen today? The release is not going to happen today, but will be very soon. My guess is that builds and mirroring will happen over the weekend and the release

Re: 6.2 Release

2007-01-11 Thread Jack Vogel
On 1/11/07, Bruce A. Mah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If memory serves me right, Jack Vogel wrote: On 1/10/07, Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott T. Hildreth wrote: Does anyone know if the Release is still going to happen today? The release is not going to happen today

Re: 6.2-RELEASE em0 watchdog timeouts -- sometimes (w/ partial workaround)

2007-01-16 Thread Jack Vogel
On 1/16/07, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:53:04AM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: There are some management related issues with this NIC, first if you have not done so make a DOS bootable device, and run this app I am enclosing, it fixes the prom setting

Lenovo X60 em workaround

2007-01-17 Thread Jack Vogel
Since this was just seen, and the patch below validated as working I wanted to send general email to capture this: The Lenovo X60 can have issues with long ping times, this is a KNOWN hardware problem, and Intel is working with IBM/Lenovo, a final 'fix' has not been decided on yet. Nevertheless,

Re: Lenovo X60 em workaround

2007-01-20 Thread Jack Vogel
On 1/19/07, Bill Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since this was just seen, and the patch below validated as working I wanted to send general email to capture this: The Lenovo X60 can have issues with long ping times, this is a KNOWN hardware problem, and Intel is working with IBM/Lenovo, a

Re: Lenovo X60 em workaround

2007-01-22 Thread Jack Vogel
On 1/22/07, Gleb Smirnoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack, On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 02:35:17PM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: J Since this was just seen, and the patch below validated as working I J wanted J to send general email to capture this: J J The Lenovo X60 can have issues with long ping

Re: Lenovo X60 em workaround

2007-01-22 Thread Jack Vogel
On 1/22/07, Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/22/07, Gleb Smirnoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack, On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 02:35:17PM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: J Since this was just seen, and the patch below validated as working I J wanted J to send general email to capture

Re: Supermicro X7DBR-8+ hang at boot

2007-01-23 Thread Jack Vogel
On 1/23/07, Guy Helmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using FreeBSD 6.2, I'm having trouble with the Supermicro X7DBR-8+ motherboard (dual Xeon 5130 CPUs on the Blackford chipset - http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5000P/X7DBR-8+.cfm) hanging after printing the Waiting 5 seconds

Re: Lenovo X60 em workaround

2007-01-23 Thread Jack Vogel
On 1/23/07, Louis Kowolowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:34:48AM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: On 1/22/07, Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/22/07, Gleb Smirnoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack, On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 02:35:17PM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: J

Re: Lenovo X60 em workaround

2007-01-24 Thread Jack Vogel
On 1/24/07, Gavin Atkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 10:30 -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: On 1/22/07, Gleb Smirnoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack, On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 02:35:17PM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: J Since this was just seen, and the patch below validated

Re: Intel EM tuning (PT1000 adaptors)

2007-01-30 Thread Jack Vogel
On 1/30/07, Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On one of my servers (RELENG_6 as of yesterday), I am seeing what appears to be RX overruns. Load avg does not seem to be high, and the only odd thing I have done to the kernel is defined #define EM_FAST_INTR 1 The man page talks about setting

Re: ARP problem with 6.2-STABLE Intel PRO/1000 NIC, latest em driver

2007-03-04 Thread Jack Vogel
On 3/4/07, Mark Costlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Machine: I have a dual Xeon 5130 machine, Supermicro motherboard, with the 82563EB NIC. From dmesg: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU5130 @ 2.00GHz (2000.08-MHz 686-class CPU) cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 em0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network

Re: ARP problem with 6.2-STABLE Intel PRO/1000 NIC, latest em driver

2007-03-05 Thread Jack Vogel
On 3/4/07, Duane Whitty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:30:07PM -0700, Mark Costlow wrote: The Machine: I have a dual Xeon 5130 machine, Supermicro motherboard, with the 82563EB NIC. From dmesg: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU5130 @ 2.00GHz (2000.08-MHz

Re: ARP problem with 6.2-STABLE Intel PRO/1000 NIC, latest em driver

2007-03-05 Thread Jack Vogel
On 3/5/07, Mark Costlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:41:01AM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: Maybe more of your dmesg might help as it could show interrrupt issues that perhaps others could help diagnose Yes, agreed, this might be revealing. Here's the full dmesg. Thanks

Re: ARP problem with 6.2-STABLE Intel PRO/1000 NIC, latest em driver

2007-03-05 Thread Jack Vogel
On 3/5/07, Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/5/07, Mark Costlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:41:01AM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: Maybe more of your dmesg might help as it could show interrrupt issues that perhaps others could help diagnose Yes, agreed

PATCH : ARP problem with 6.2-STABLE Intel PRO/1000 NIC, latest em driver

2007-03-05 Thread Jack Vogel
On 3/5/07, Mark Costlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:02:26AM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: On 3/5/07, Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/5/07, Mark Costlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:41:01AM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: Maybe more of your

Re: Boot prompt for Intel AMT

2007-03-05 Thread Jack Vogel
On 3/5/07, Artem Kuchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I hope some people will understand what i am talking about, because the technology, i think, is not very popular, but can come VERY handy. Intel AMT Serial over LAN (SOL, why is it called 'over LAN' if it is really 'OVER IP'?) allows to

Re: Boot prompt for Intel AMT

2007-03-06 Thread Jack Vogel
On 3/6/07, Artem Kuchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope some people will understand what i am talking about, because the technology, i think, is not very popular, but can come VERY handy. Intel AMT Serial over LAN (SOL, why is it called 'over LAN' if it is really 'OVER IP'?) allows to boot

Re: Boot prompt for Intel AMT

2007-03-06 Thread Jack Vogel
On 3/6/07, Vivek Khera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 6, 2007, at 1:04 PM, Jack Vogel wrote: Yes, my bad, I spoke too quickly, it does use IP, sorry, I still find SOL much more descriptive of what I think about the whole apparatus however :) :-) Personally, I really like the Sun ILOM

Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-13 Thread Jack Vogel
On 3/13/07, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:58:34PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD or ATI components until they decide to fix the

Re: em0 watchdog timeout with nfs

2007-04-05 Thread Jack Vogel
On 4/5/07, Jasper Berlijn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, At this moment I'm running FreeBSD 4.11 without any problems. A couple of times I've tried to upgrade to 6.x but without any luck because of the watchdog timeout errors on em0 when using nfs. Mar 30 11:30:48 large kernel: em0: watchdog

Stack panic with em driver unload

2007-04-05 Thread Jack Vogel
Our test group uses a script that does 100 iterations of a module load, then bring up all interfaces, and then unload driver. Depending on the system in anything from just a few iterations to 20 or more, the system will panic. Its doing an em_detach() which calls ether_ifdetach() which goes to

Re: Stack panic with em driver unload

2007-04-09 Thread Jack Vogel
On 4/6/07, Tai-hwa Liang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Jack Vogel wrote: Our test group uses a script that does 100 iterations of a module load, then bring up all interfaces, and then unload driver. Depending on the system in anything from just a few iterations to 20 or more

WOL question

2007-04-10 Thread Jack Vogel
I am hoping someone here who has more familiarity with the ACPI code can enlighten me I have an internal bug filed complaining that FreeBSD disables wake-on-lan on the hardware. This means that if you boot, say, Linux, even Knoppix as a quickie, and then shutdown, if the hardware supports

Re: WOL question

2007-04-11 Thread Jack Vogel
On 4/11/07, Anne Marcel Roorda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kimi Ostro writes: On 10/04/07, Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am hoping someone here who has more familiarity with the ACPI code can enlighten me I have an internal bug filed complaining

Re: Lenovo X60 em workaround

2007-04-17 Thread Jack Vogel
On 4/17/07, Henrik Brix Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:30:48AM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: Acknowledge... I can do better than that, I have a fix for this problem, and its not temporary. Here is the code change (not a patch, I'm very busy), its

Re: CARP and em0 timeout watchdog

2007-04-20 Thread Jack Vogel
fast processor and on a gigE network you'll probably see 8-9MByte/sec via SSH while 60-70MByte/sec via FTP. That's the only difference I can think of. The watchdog resets I can't explain; Jack Vogel should be able to assist with that. But it sounds like the resets only happen under very high

Re: CARP and em0 timeout watchdog

2007-04-20 Thread Jack Vogel
On 4/20/07, Sven Willenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 10:17 -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: On 4/20/07, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 11:51:56AM -0400, Sven Willenberger wrote: Having done more diagnostics I have found out it is not CARP

Re: CARP and em0 timeout watchdog

2007-04-20 Thread Jack Vogel
On 4/20/07, Brian McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/20/07, Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/20/07, Sven Willenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 10:17 -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: On 4/20/07, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 11

Re: em bad performance

2005-12-22 Thread Jack Vogel
On 12/22/05, Gleb Smirnoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 12:37:53PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: D On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 12:24:42PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: D D D D Server listening on TCP port 5001 D D

Re: em bad performance

2005-12-25 Thread Jack Vogel
On 12/22/05, Danny Braniss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: iperf -c host i'm begining to believe that the problem is elsewhere, i just put in an ethernet nic in a PCI-X/Express slot, and the performance is similar, bad. danny Hmm, not some silly like getting set to half duplex? :) Jack

Re: freeBSD 5.5 Prerelease ( 5.4 stable )

2006-02-06 Thread Jack Vogel
On 2/6/06, Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon Holstrom wrote: any one know the date to get 5.4 stable ? i am not able to find the date to CVsup 5.4 stable as 5.5 is vary slow is to buggy You might try stable-6.x, which in my opinion is really fine. My sense is that

Re: Intel watchdog timer

2006-02-08 Thread Jack Vogel
On 2/8/06, Christopher Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, does anyone have any info on how to disable the watchdog timer on an intel serverboard model SE7501WV2? I have found the userland application to disable the watchdog in the ICH but that dosnt help much when i cant even get 6.0

Re: jumbo em

2006-03-16 Thread Jack Vogel
On 3/16/06, Yuriy N. Shkandybin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I have 2 freebsd servers connected by dedicated wire via em interfaces. systems = 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Mar 14 11:58:23 MSK 2006 1st) man em says MTU size for Jumbo Frames is 16114 and i'm sure i've setup this on freebsd-5

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