----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian J. Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 3:13 AM Subject: Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:22:44 -0800 > "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have found with some of the intel MBs that the latest BIOS update > > actually causes trouble. Don't be afraid to try back-flashing to an > > older BIOS update. Intel has all the BIOS versions up on their site for > > each board. > > > > Ted > > Tried a few things in the past couple days: > > - Set the interfaces to not auto-negotiate and hard-coded them: No change. > - Tried the past 3 BIOS revisions I had been using previously: No change. > > Next up, started swapping around cards. I noticed that one of my 3 3c905C > cards hadn't been giving the watchdog timeout errors that I could > remember, even though I'm doubting 2/3 of my previously-good cards are > actually bad, but I kept that one at xl1 and tried a good 3c905B as xl0. > This worked a little differently, now instead of watchdog timeouts, on the > previously-normal xl1 I get: > > Mar 15 05:56:51 imogen kernel: xl1: transmission error: 90 > Mar 15 05:56:51 imogen kernel: xl1: tx underrun, increasing tx start > threshold to 120 bytes > > I know it's *technically* an informational message and not a problem, I'm > a perfectionist and would prefer it not to be there. I didn't know you had multiple 3com cards so I didn't mention this earlier, but you will find the 3com cards with the WHITE label on the card to work better than the ones with the YELLOW label. It's a chipset revision thing. It also happens under some versions of Linux. The underrun error is perfectly fine and can be ignored. I have gotten them myself with no ill effects. You will not be able to fix this message. It will go away once the driver has increased the buffer enough. Ted _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
