Re: Kernel panic on amd64Netbsd 4.0

Paul Goyette <[email protected]> Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:04:31 -0700 (PDT)

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.general,gmane.os.netbsd.help,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.x86-64
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On Sat, 27 Sep 2008, Christoph Egger wrote:

>>>>>> nfe0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0: vendor 0x10de product 0x0373 (rev. 0xa3)
>>>>>> APCH: Picked IRQ 22 with weight 1
>>>>>> nfe0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 22
>>>>>> nfe0: Ethernet address 00:1e:8c:3e:2b:95
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm.  This is a most likely candidate.  I use NFS extensively.
>>>
>>> Would you have a chance to try a add-on ethernet adapter ?
>>
>> If only I had one!  :)
>
> On my laptop I loose packets with nfe in gigabit mode. In 100MBit 
> mode, it works fine.
> Paul: Try the 100MBit mode.

I'll give it a try one day soon.  Unfortunately, my 'random' crashes 
never seem to be reproducible, so I'll have to run for a few days (or 
even weeks) in this mode with lots of build.sh activity, to have a 
reasonable confidence level that it helps.


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