Re: wm MDIC write error

[Masanobu SAITOH <msaitoh%execsw.org@localhost>]

Hello, Mark.

(2013/06/13 10:30), Mark Davies wrote:
> Hi,
>     I have a 6.0_STABLE/i386 (almost 6.1) box with an onboard PCH2 LAN
> 82579LM (wm0) and an Intel i82574L on a PCIe card (wm1)
>
> When I first boot the machine both network ports work fine but after a
> while wm1 stops and I get lots of the following logged:
>
>            [...]
> wm1: MDIC write error: phy 1 reg 0
> wm1: MDIC write error: phy 1 reg 4
> wm1: MDIC write error: phy 1 reg 9
> wm1: MDIC write error: phy 1 reg 0
>            [...]
>
> Need to powercycle the machine to get it working again.
>
> Anybody know whats broken here?  Have a fix? (in current?)
>
> cheers
> mark

 I've never seen the problem with my own 82579 system, but I saw the same error
a few days ago with I217LM in -current. The problem is reproducable, so I'll
try to fix it.

 Regards.

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