Re: fxp0 issues

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

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:49:29PM +0000, Kimi Ostro wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 13/11/06, Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> >
> >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
> >
> 
> None of these options produced a "working" fxp for me, I still gets
> fxp0: device timeout
> 
> GENERIC dmesg: http://pastebin.com/823290
> GENERIC.MPACPI dmesg: http://pastebin.com/823291
> 
> I did manage to get fxp to work with dhclient but fxp seems to "die".
> 
> I can see packets if I use tcpdump, yet if I bridge it, the DomUs
> packets seem to go no where, also I cannot ssh in to any of the DomUs?
> I can when I bridge via vr0.
> 
> So I do not know if the device timeout is related??

The device timeout if probably the reason why fxp0 doesn't work.
It usually means that either interrupts are not working for this device,
or the driver has a problem with this revision of the chip.

You'd better post this to port-i386 to get a wider audience, maybe
someone has a clue about what's going on ...

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