Subject: Re: Kernel panics with pci network cards (fxp and ex)
To: Arto Huusko <arto.huusko@utu.fi>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 05/23/2004 20:31:10
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 05:07:33PM +0300, Arto Huusko wrote:
> On Sun, 23 May 2004, Einar Karttunen wrote:
> 
> > So it seems to be related to (unaligned?) probing of PCI
> > memory/registers. I switched the card to a 3c905B (ex),
> > which booted fine, but a simple ifconfig made the machine
> > panic with a similar (write to PCI space) reason.
> 
> I have the same problem on alphastation 500.
> 
> It would be very nice to get 3c905 working.

With which release ?

NetBSD 1.6.2 (ARMANDECHE) #1: Tue Mar  9 14:22:10 CET 2004
    bouyer@folk:/local/folk1/bouyer/netbsd-1-6/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/ARMAND
ECHE
AlphaStation 255/233, 232MHz, s/n 
8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
total memory = 320 MB
(2000 KB reserved for PROM, 318 MB used by NetBSD)
avail memory = 292 MB
using 2048 buffers containing 16384 KB of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: ID 0 (primary), 21064A-0
cpu0: Architecture extensions: 6<CIX,FIX>
apecs0 at mainbus0: DECchip 21072 Core Logic chipset
apecs0: DC21071-CA pass 2, 128-bit memory bus
apecs0: DC21071-DA pass 2
pci0 at apecs0 bus 0
[...]
ex0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0: 3Com 3c905C-TX 10/100 Ethernet with mngmt (rev. 0x78)
ex0: interrupting at isa irq 5
ex0: MAC address 00:04:75:d9:6c:98
exphy0 at ex0 phy 24: 3Com internal media interface
exphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto

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