Re: "watchdog timeout" on a network card?

["Michael R. Jinks" <mjinks@saecos.com>]

David Hofstee wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> >I might have a bum network card, it's possible, but I don't know if
> >that's what this error is telling me.
> I stumbled across the same problem. I tried swapping
> everything etcetera (PCI slots, NICs, IRQs) but rl0 kept failing.
> Unfortunately I didn't have time to solve more of the mystery
> but it I think it is OBSD. "man rl"

Oh dear -- I had no idea such a thing existed.  Silly me, thanks for
that.

> gives me that it "stopped
> responding to the network" or "there is a problem with the
> network connection (cable)". I know that the network is fine.

Likewise.  I get a link light, there's another OBSD machine plugged in
right next to it (with a different brand of NIC), brand new cable...
network trouble doubtful.

> First off, I had the wrong PHY driver (AMPHY),

Okay, newbie here, what is that and how do I investigate it?

> but that was solved with
> typing UKC at the BOOT prompt, and then DISABLE PCIBIOS and QUIT
> and I got a dmesg that I was using RLPHY again.

Oh, here we go -- from the dmesg on the afflicted box:

rl0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "Realtek 8139" rev 0x10: irq 5 address
00:50:ba:43:b4:f0
amphy0 at rl0 phy 0: Am79C873 10/100 media interface, rev. 0
<snip>
rl1 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "Realtek 8139" rev 0x10: irq 10 address
00:50:ba:40:6f:3f
amphy1 at rl1 phy 0: Am79C873 10/100 media interface, rev. 0

That's good, right?

> Hope you know now what doesn't work :-) and good luck. I'm interested
> in what you find. Bye,

No news yet, I think my next course will be to go scrounge the shelves
for another network card (although it's likely to be the same model,
unfortunately), apply the Windows Solution, and see what happens.  I'll
mail you offline if anything interesting happens.

-m

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Michael Jinks, IB // Technical Entity // Saecos Corporation