Re: ifconfig on re0 panics Toshiba Satellite M115-S3094 with RealTek 8101E chipset

["Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/10/06, Joe Talbott <josepht@cstone.net> wrote:
> I bought a Toshiba Satellite M115-S3094 which has a PCIE NIC that has
> a RealTek 8101E chip.  When I try to ifconfig the interface to assign
> it an IP address my machine panics.  I have posted some photos of the
> panic message and a db trace.  I have also posted a verbose dmesg and
> pciconf output here:
>
> http://www.xenno.com/dfbsd/
>
> There are two directories 'panic1' and 'panic2'.  Panic1 says "RAM
> parity error" and suggests hardware failure, yet this is the second
> laptop (exact same model) that I've tried and the panic persists
> (though I don't have pictures from the first laptop).  I am running
> 1.7.0-DEVELOPMENT from December 8, 2006.

Can you get a coredump, and post the back trace?  That will be helpful.

> There are other issues as well that may or may not be related.  I have
> a USB ethernet adaptor (aue) that auto negotiates to 10baseT/UTP on
> FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE to negotiates to 100baseTX.  The laptop has

mmm, I didn't quite understand here, do you mean that aue(4) will
operate at 10UTP on dfly?

> hung several times.  Once with an out of memory error from aue0 while
> cvs up'ing the pkgsrc tree.  I have not been able to get it to dump
> core.  Also the aue adaptor is only recognized if it plugged in while
> booting.  Plugging it in once the laptop is booted yields nothing.

Please sync with today's HEAD

> I am willing to help in any way necessary to further debug these
> issues.
>
> Thanks,
> Joe Talbott

Best Regards,
sephe

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