I tried booting up with ACPI disabled, and suddenly the network connections worked like a charm.
Thanks, Renee Gehlbach > Today I updated a server from 6.4 to 7.2. I cvsup'ed, built world, built > kernel, installed kernel, installed world, mergemastered, and rebooted. > And sat there, while ntpdate timed out trying to connect to four different > servers, while interface status messages slowly scrolled: > tx0: device timeout 2 packets > tx0: seems we can continue normally > rl0: watchdog timeout > > When it finally timed out, and I logged in, I found that I could ping > 127.0.0.1, I could ping 192.168.50.7 (tx0 interface), I could ping the rl0 > wan interface, I could not ping the gateway or anything outside of the > machine. > > Looking at dmesg later, I found the same timeout messages repeated again > and again, and I found further error messages: > tx0: reinitialization > tx0: ERROR! Can't stop TxDMA > tx0: ERROR! Unknown PHY selected > > and repeated periodically: > tx0: reinitialization > tx0: ERROR! Unknown PHY selected > > > I built and installed the generic kernel, and tried again. Same deal. I > disabled ipfilter and ntp in rc.conf, removed the configuration lines for > all but one interface, and rebooted. Same deal, just shorter boot time > without having to wait for ntpdate (grin) > > I thought, ok.....really old NICs. There were some warnings about > deprecated features in bootup. I took out both NICs and put in an Intel > Pro 10/100/1000 -- obviously supported. Same deal. > > I previously attempted to update this server several months ago, going > from 6.something to 7.1, and had this same problem. After several > frustrating days, I restored from backup and updated to latest 6.x, which > worked fine. > > So I assume that I have something configured wrong. If there were > hardware compatibility issues this big, this version would never have gone > to stable, and people would be screaming about it all over the mailing > lists. So my question is.....what should be my next troubleshooting step? > > Thanks for your time, > Renee Gehlbach > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
