Re: NIC timeouts since upgrade to 4.0

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <fs3bb0$8ip$1%ger.gmane.org@localhost>,
Frederik Sausmikat  <frederik.sausmikat%gmx.de@localhost> wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>a while ago I did a fresh install of NetBSD 4.0 and since then my 
>network interfaces stopped working properly. I have two cards installed 
>in my system: a D-Link DFE-530TX (vr0), which worked well with NetBSD 
>3.1 and a NForce2 Network Controller (nfe0).
>
>It seems the vr0 stopped working completely. While trying to configure 
>it via dhclient (at boot) it keeps repeating "vr0: device timeout" and 
>nothing more happens.
>
>The nfe0 always prints "nfe0: watchdog timeout" twice (sometimes 
>followed by "nfe0: tx v1 error 0x6001") and, after that, it seems to 
>work fine (but it's annoying to wait about 20-30 seconds on every boot 
>just for the network card to become ready).
>
>I already tried to investigate this a bit. So far I have a kernel dump, 
>created when the kernel entered the watchdog routine (don't know if this 
>is of any use), which didn't tell me much except that the watchdog timer 
>works and tried running a kernel with ACPI disabled (without success).
>
>Does anybody have a solution for the problem or an idea where I could 
>start looking?
>
>Regards, Freddy
>

Could be an interrupt issue. Try disabling ACPI.

christos