solved (Re: USB ether fails: watchdog timeout)

For the sake of record:

With some discussions in bsd-usb ML, the issue is fixed in rev 1.118
of dev/usb/ohci.c committed by shiba@.  It is waiting to be MFC'ed.

At Tue, 25 Feb 2003 03:36:43 +0900,
Hiroharu Tamaru wrote:
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> I have an "I/O DATA USB ETTXS" USB ether NIC (aue, Pegasus
> II) which fails to work with Toshiba Libretto M3 (notebook)
> on FreeBSD 4.2--5.0 (at least). 
> 
> From the reasons described below, I am suspecting if it were
> to do with the OHCI controllor on Libretto M3, which is NEC
> uPD 9210.
> 
> ohci0: <NEC uPD 9210 USB controller> mem 0xffaff000-0xffafffff irq 11 at device 11.0 on pci0
> usb0: OHCI version 1.0
> usb0: <NEC uPD 9210 USB controller> on ohci0
> usb0: USB revision 1.0
> uhub0: NEC OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> 
> The only part that's not working seems to be the transmit
> part.  aue driver attaches and ifconfig succeeds, and tcpdump
> even captures the packets on the wire.  But once instructed
> to send a packet (like ping or dhclient), 
> 
> aue0: watchdog timeout
> 
> occurs (but receive side continues normally) and nothing is
> sent.  I added printfs to see the usb status code that's
> acquired inside aue_watchdog after the call to
> usbd_get_xfer_status, it turned out to be USB_NOT_STARTED.
> 'ifconfig aue0'ing after this timeout shows OACTIVE flag on,
> and it never drops until after 'ifconfig aue0 down' is
> issued.
> 
> And that was about everything I could try in the absence of
> any knowledge for USB programming.
> Could someone suggest snything to try with this?
> 
> TIA.
> 
> 
> PS:
> This NIC works fine on a 5.0-RELEASE desktop box with a UHCI
> host controller: 
> 
> uhci0: <Intel 82801BA/BAM (ICH2) USB controller USB-A>
>  port 0xd000-0xd01f irq 11 at device 31.2 on pci0
> 
> and also on a 4.7-STABLE desktop box with:
> 
> uhci0: <Intel 82801AB (ICH0) USB controller>
>  port 0xd000-0xd01f irq 10 at device 31.2 on pci0
> 
> USB mice (ums) and USB floppy (umass,da0) work fine with
> this Libretto, so the usb subsystem itself is not totally
> broken.
> 
> One other thing I might mention is that this Libretto
> freezes when I try to use pccard and usb together, unless I
> route the pccard (ToPic97) interrups via isa bus by:
> hw.pcic.intr_path="1"
> hw.pcic.irq="0"
> 
> May be it is so because both pcic and ohci grabs irq 11 if
> the pcic is pci routed where as in polling and isa routing
> mode, ed0 that's plugged into the PCCard slot grabs irq3 and
> thus there's no conflict.  BIOS tells me that pci devices
> all grab irq11 and is not configurable to anything else.
> Most of the internal devices were disabled inside the BIOS
> to make things simple during the test.
> 
> FWIW, booting 5.0-RELEASE on this machine fails to find ata
> ad0 disk at the very last step just before the login prompt,
> unless acpi is disabled.
> -- 
> Hiroharu Tamaru.

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