Subject: Re: strange high interrupt load and other problems.
To: None <eau@phear.org>
From: SAITOH Masanobu <masanobu@iij.ad.jp>
List: current-users
Date: 06/12/2006 12:26:14
 > >> the ethernet card is not working out of the box, little hacking needed.
 > >> (I've ported em(4) from openbsd -> netbsd, I will post the  work when
 > >> a bit of code cleaning is done, but it works _now_)
 > 
 > ok my em(4) port is already obsolete :)
 > latest -current has wm(4) updated and it actually detect my
 > gigabit (i82573L iirc and according to pcictl), but no traffic
 > goes in or out of the wm0 interface.. (dhclient fails etc.. ):/
 > 
 > no errors reported...

 Sorry, it's known problem... :-/

Solutions:

 a) After booted up:

	ifconfig down
	ifconfig up

 b) Don't use 10BaseT or 100BaseT. Perhaps you are using "ifconfig wm0 media
    auto"

Other known problems (reported by tron):

 1) tso4 option cause the device timeout.

 2) poor performance

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		SAITOH Masanobu (masanobu@iij.ad.jp
				  msaitoh@netbsd.org)