Re: FreeBSD em ether driver lockup

From: Petri Helenius (pete_at_he.iki.fi)
Date: 06/16/04

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    Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:13:42 +0300
To: ming fu <fming@borderware.com>

    ming fu wrote:

    >
    > Is there a suggestion on how to trigger the watchdog to be called. It
    > is really time consuming to diagnose this as it takes hours or dates
    > for the em to lockup once.

    Some vendors are kind enough to sell motherboards broken enough for em
    to never get interrupts. However the current driver does not fire a
    watchdog on those boards either.

    Pete

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