In message <20030416075523.GC29454@sea.clarity.net>, Adam Glass writes:
>Takahiro wrote:
>> Don't you enable "PNP OS Installed" of BIOS configuration?
>
>The machine in question (a Supermicro P4SBE system) does not have
>such an option; it has "Resources controlled by", which has two
>possible settings: "Auto(ECSD)" and "Manual".  I switched it to
>manual and it worked, and I thought I'd solved the problem, but
>then I rebooted again and fxp1 was gone.
>
>This part blows my mind: then I rebooted again and it was back.
>Indeed, rebooted the machine 10 times, and with perfect regularity,
>fxp1 would not work on every other boot.  I tried it with a GENERIC
>kernel, with the aforementioned CUSTOM kernel, with the 1.6-release
>GENERIC kernel ... they all did the exact same thing.  Here's the
>output of a file produced by appending the output from 'ifconfig -l'
>to a file on each boot:
>
>  fxp0 lo0 ppp0 ppp1 sl0 sl1 strip0 strip1
>  fxp0 fxp1 lo0 ppp0 ppp1 sl0 sl1 strip0 strip1
>  fxp0 lo0 ppp0 ppp1 sl0 sl1 strip0 strip1
>  fxp0 fxp1 lo0 ppp0 ppp1 sl0 sl1 strip0 strip1
>  fxp0 lo0 ppp0 ppp1 sl0 sl1 strip0 strip1
>  fxp0 fxp1 lo0 ppp0 ppp1 sl0 sl1 strip0 strip1
>  fxp0 lo0 ppp0 ppp1 sl0 sl1 strip0 strip1
>  fxp0 fxp1 lo0 ppp0 ppp1 sl0 sl1 strip0 strip1
>  fxp0 lo0 ppp0 ppp1 sl0 sl1 strip0 strip1
>  fxp0 fxp1 lo0 ppp0 ppp1 sl0 sl1 strip0 strip1
>
>Any suggestions?
>

What happens after boots from a powered-down status?  My guess is that 
NetBSD is leaving the device in some state from which an ordinary RESET 
doesn't clear it, and the initialization isn't quite right.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
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