Subject: Re: [followup] fxp0 issues
To: Kimi Ostro <kimimeister@gmail.com>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/16/2006 16:58:56
On Nov 16,  9:40pm, kimimeister@gmail.com ("Kimi Ostro") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: [followup] fxp0 issues

| On 16/11/06, Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com> wrote:
| >
| > So what is the diff you applied? Just commenting out the initialization
| > is probably not good enough, because then the KASSERT will fail. I am
| > committing a little cleanup patch soon, that might help.
| >
| 
| commenting out line 155 of src/sys/dev/mii/inphy.c:
| 
| /*       sc->mii_anegticks = 5; */
| 
| was enough for me.

We really don't want to do this, because it will try to autonegotiate
continuously if we do.

| I cited lines 309-314 of src/sys/dev/mii/mii_physubr.c as I was trying
| to understand if commenting out line 155 of inphy.c might cause harm
| to either of the fxp's I have.
| 
| sorry for the confusion.

No problem, can you cvs update and see if my changes made any difference?
I don't think that they should have, but you never know.

christos