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From: Robert Maerzke <robert@maerzkegeneral.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Etherlink III NIC won't work after upgrade to FBSD 8, If I run tcpdump - it works.
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>Number:         141741
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Etherlink III NIC won't work after upgrade to FBSD 8, If I run tcpdump - it works.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-net
>State:          feedback
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Dec 18 06:20:01 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Mon May  9 05:50:07 UTC 2011
>Originator:     Robert Maerzke
>Release:        8.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 8.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 #1: Mon Dec 14 14:19:20 CST 2009     xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

>Description:
After upgrade from 7.2 to 8 my 3c509b NIC cards will not work.  I can
ping the IP address of the card from within the machine.  However, I
can't access anything external.  If I run TcpDump, the card will start working.
>How-To-Repeat:
Reboot after upgrade to FBSD 8.0
>Fix:
Running tcpdump from the console restores network connectivity.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-i386->freebsd-net 
Responsible-Changed-By: linimon 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Dec 21 06:51:14 UTC 2009 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to maintainer(s). 

To submitter: what driver detects this card? 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=141741 
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: linimon 
State-Changed-When: Tue Dec 22 09:22:10 UTC 2009 
State-Changed-Why:  
Note that submitter was asked for feedback. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=141741 

From: Robert Maerzke <robert@maerzkegeneral.com>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, robert@maerzkegeneral.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/141741: Etherlink III NIC won't work after upgrade to FBSD
 8, If I run tcpdump - it works.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:58:29 -0600

 Here's the relevant lines from dmesg:
 
 ep0: <3Com 3C509B-Combo EtherLink III (PnP)> at port 0x210-0x21f irq 5 
 pnpid TCM5094 on isa0
 ep0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
 ep0: Ethernet address: 00:60:97:22:8b:f5
 ep0: [ITHREAD]
 driver bug: Unable to set devclass (devname: (null))
 
 

From: Richard Johnson <raj@new.mischievous.us>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, robert@maerzkegeneral.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/141741: Etherlink III NIC won't work after upgrade to FBSD 8, If I run tcpdump - it works.
Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 22:09:46 -0700

 I'm seeing this same problem now that I installed FreeBSD 8.2 on my =
 laptop.  Sometimes it will lock up even from just doing "ifconfig -a".  =
 I can get it to come back if I do "ifconfig ep0 up" a few times after =
 waiting a while.  I'm guessing it has to do with the "ep0: WARNING: =
 using obsoleted if_watchdog interface" upon startup.
 
 /raj
 
>Unformatted:
