hi all! I've been using OpenBSD during the last 2-3 years mainly running it as a firewall.
I've an old machine (486 + 48MB RAM) and yesterday decided to make some improvements: upgrade it from 4.0 to 4.2 (new installation) and replace the two NICs, switching from NE2000 clones (RTL8029) to 3C905B. The problem is that i'm getting ton of this messages which bring down the two interfaces: xl0: reset didn't complete xl1: reset didn't complete xl0: command never completed! xl1: command never completed! I found that man xl already has some information about 'command never completed' but in this case the driver does not continue to function normally. Is this problem a combination of old hardware with the xl interfaces ? or are this interfaces crap too ? switching to a newer machine (pentium 166) may help ? or should I buy different NICs ? Thanks in advance for any help!. Jorge PS: by the way, I'm still having with 4.2 a keyboard issue reported on 2006-01-06: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=113658848307726&w=2 OpenBSD 4.2 (GENERIC) #375: Tue Aug 28 10:38:44 MDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel 486DX (486-class) real mem = 49905664 (47MB) avail mem = 39297024 (37MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 07/25/94, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf7810 apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.0 apm0: AC on, battery is unknown apm0: flags 30100 dobusy 0 doidle 1 pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.0 @ 0xf0000/0x10000 pcibios0: pcibios_get_intr_routing - function not supported pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing information unavailable. pcibios0: PCI bus #0 is the last bus WARNING: can't reserve area for I/O APIC. WARNING: can't reserve area for Local APIC. bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000 cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios) xl0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 "3Com 3c905B 100Base-TX" rev 0x30: irq 11, address 00:01:02:6e:c5:08 exphy0 at xl0 phy 24: 3Com internal media interface xl1 at pci0 dev 14 function 0 "3Com 3c905B 100Base-TX" rev 0x30: irq 9, address 00:01:02:87:fc:88 exphy1 at xl1 phy 24: 3Com internal media interface vga1 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "ATI Mach64 GP" rev 0x5c wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) pchb0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "UMC UM8881F Host" rev 0x01 pcib0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "UMC UM8886" rev 0x01 isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0/8 irq 14 wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0: <WDC AC310200R> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 9787MB, 20044080 sectors wd0(wdc0:0:0): using BIOS timings pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16 biomask f5fd netmask fffd ttymask ffff pctr: no performance counters in CPU dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b
