Re: netbsd-11 vs. SUNW,qfe; hmeX: device timeout?

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%consolidated.net@localhost>]

On Wed, 29 Apr 2026, Martin Husemann wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 10:02:14AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 08:18:43PM -0500, John D. Baker wrote:
> > > Anyone else poke at using a SUNW,qfe card?
> > 
> > I have one, will update the machine and test.
> 
> I updated my LX with that card to current. It is using the first port
> of the qfe card as only network connection. Everything seems to be working
> fine here.

I got my -current (NFS only) installation updated (last booted 6.0_BETA)
via le0 and then switched to hme0.

It gets further.  Mounted the NFS root and did everything fine up until
(re-)configuring the network w/dhcpcd.  Then the device timeouts began.
sending a BREAK to drop in to ddb, I forgot to specify to not sync
disks on reboot and it hung there.

Following the power-cycle, it seemed to behave better and 'dhcpcd'
configured the network (although some part of the process claimed there
was a bad checksum from my DHCP server).  It proceeded all the way to a
login: prompt on constty.  I'd left it that way for a little over an
hour, but when I came back, trying to log in is stuck.  (I just pressed
<enter> at the prompt.  The cursor moved to the start of the next line
and stayed like that.)

Switching to static network configuration post-boot seems to make little
difference.  I got to log in and tweaked a couple of configuration files,
but the machine hung when I issued a 'shutdown' command.  (no kernel messages
at all duing the two hangs observed (login: and 'shutdown').

Trying hme1, it ran the 'rc' scripts up until it tried to start 'syslogd'
at which point the "hme1: device timeout" messages began.


It worked fine back in netbsd-5 (6_BETA dmesg showed still using qec/qe
card), except that using it as a NAT router/firewall broke websites and
made FTP impossible.

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