Re: wm MDIC write error

[Masanobu SAITOH <msaitoh%execsw.org@localhost>]

(2013/06/13 10:37), Masanobu SAITOH wrote:
> Hello, Mark.
>
> (2013/06/13 10:30), Mark Davies wrote:
> > Hi,
> >     I have a 6.0_STABLE/i386 (almost 6.1) box with an onboard PCH2 LAN
> > 82579LM (wm0) and an Intel i82574L on a PCIe card (wm1)
> >
> > When I first boot the machine both network ports work fine but after a
> > while wm1 stops and I get lots of the following logged:
> >
> >            [...]
> > wm1: MDIC write error: phy 1 reg 0
> > wm1: MDIC write error: phy 1 reg 4
> > wm1: MDIC write error: phy 1 reg 9
> > wm1: MDIC write error: phy 1 reg 0

 It's wm1, so not 82579LM but 82574L. Anyway, I'll test with my boxes.

 Regards.


> >            [...]
> >
> > Need to powercycle the machine to get it working again.
> >
> > Anybody know whats broken here?  Have a fix? (in current?)
> >
> > cheers
> > mark
>
>   I've never seen the problem with my own 82579 system, but I saw the same error
> a few days ago with I217LM in -current. The problem is reproducable, so I'll
> try to fix it.
>
>   Regards.


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