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List:       openbsd-alpha
Subject:    Re: xp1000 and openbsd 3.8
From:       Khalid Schofield <khalid () sgi ! materials ! ox ! ac ! uk>
Date:       2006-03-26 20:37:52
Message-ID: Pine.SGI.4.58.0603262037130.87321 () sgi ! materials ! ox ! ac ! uk
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Ah that answers it! I won't enable 100Mb full duplex :)

thanks for the tip. That actually really helps

khalid

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Jeff Norton wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:29:12 +0000
> Khalid Schofield <khalid@sgi.materials.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > Not sure. I will wait for it to happen again (tomorrow) and then post the
> > response from dmesg or syslog. I don't think it does it from any other
> > OS's just openbsd. I will try another OS. It used to run Digital well but
> > I hate digital unix since it's a pain to use gnu tools on it (everythings
> > a bit dated and non standard).
> >
> > What spec is your xp1000? What openbsd ver do you run? Any problems at all
> > with it?
> >
> > thanks
> > khalid
> >
> > On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Michael Knudsen wrote:
> >
> > > Quoting Khalid Schofield (khalid@sgi.materials.ox.ac.uk):
> > > > I've a compaq alpha xp1000 running openbsd 3.8. It's a very nice machine
> > > > but it has a weird problem. Every so often the network will stop working.
> > > > I can't ping my box or ssh into it. No networkign responds on my xp1000 at
> > > > all. When I do a reboot it works again for a few days then it stops again.
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone else seen this? I've had this with another network card too, a
> > > > 3c905 in the same box. The network locked up with and with out the 3com
> > > > installed :(
> > > >
> > > > Any idea's? Anyone used openbsd 3.8 on the xp1000?
> > >
> > > I don't think I've ever seen this on my XP1000. Do you experience the
> > > problem with other operating systems as well? Anything in dmesg?
> > > netstat?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Michael.
> > > --
> > > Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through
> > > anything.
> > > -- (Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay)
> >
> >
>
> Not that it realy maters but i haven't had any problems with
> 3.6 GENERIC#288 alpha AlphaServer 1000A 5/333
> 1:58AM  up 33 days,  4:15, 1 user, load average
> de0: enabling 10baseT port
> de1: enabling 10baseT port
>
> although if i enable full duplex or 100baesT the network card / driver
> gets all funky /locks up after a while
> usaly a day or two.
> I for got about that untill i looked at the 10baseT
>
> de0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0 "DEC 21140" rev 0x12: dec_1000a irq 3
> de0: DEC DE500-XA 21140 [10-100Mb/s] pass 1.2 address 00:00:f8:1e:94:09
> de1 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 "DEC 21140" rev 0x12: dec_1000a irq 5
> de1: DEC DE500-XA 21140 [10-100Mb/s] pass 1.2 address 00:00:f8:1e:4
>
> stray isa irq 3
> stray isa irq 4

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