Re: fxp0 issues

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 03:28:01AM +0000, Kimi Ostro wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having issues with the fxp driver for my intel LAN card, although
> I am not sure if it something to do with NetBSD/Xen, but as I am using
> that port thought this was the most appropriate place.
> 
> Basically I keep gettings this:
> fxp0: device timeout
> 
> and the fxp0 seems to be doing nothing? yet the lights on the NIC a
> flickering if I run dhclient fxp0 yet doesn't get a DHCPLEASE :(

This could be an interrupt issue; I notice in the dmesg that ACPI thinks
the ioapic is misconfigured. Could you try a plain i386 kernel,
with and without ACPI ?
Or try a Xen kernel without ACPI and ioapic, and add
noapic acpi=off
to the Xen boot parameters in grub

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