Subject: Re: SMC Power155 ATM versus en driver
To: Michael K. Sanders <msanders@confusion.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: current-users
Date: 09/25/2001 21:27:04
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 01:03:53AM -0700, Michael K. Sanders wrote:
> I have a couple SMC Power155 PCI ATM cards, which are apparently just
> OEM versions of the Efficient card.  I played with them a few years ago
> and I believe they probed just fine, though I never actually used them.
> 
> Now, however, something isn't working.
> 
> en0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0: Efficent Networks 155P-MF1 ATM (ASIC) (rev. 0x00)
> en0: interrupting at irq 10
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: unexpected timeout in tx DMA test
> en0: WARNING: WMAYBE DMA test failed 56 time(s)
> en0: ATM midway v0, board IDs 6.0, Utopia (pipelined), 512KB on-board RAM
> en0: maximum DMA burst length = 64 bytes (must align)
> en0: 7 32KB receive buffers, 8 32KB transmit buffers allocated
> en0: End Station Identifier (mac address) 00:00:c0:44:61:e0
> 
> Any ideas?

I see this too, on *some* motherboard (moving disk & adapter in a different
machine makes it appear/dissapear).
In any case it doesn't seem to prevent normal operations with the
adapter (I've one in a machine used as IPv6 router).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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