From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Apr 27 22:24:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA23093 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 22:24:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub.Stanford.EDU (mailhub.Stanford.EDU [36.21.0.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA23086 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 22:24:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fyang (teapot.Stanford.EDU [36.182.0.31]) by mailhub.Stanford.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5/L) with SMTP id WAA16254 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 22:24:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <33643473.636F@leland.stanford.edu> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 22:25:11 -0700 From: Frank Yang Reply-To: fyang@leland.Stanford.EDU X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Intel EtherExpress 16 driver instability? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, Before I upgraded my computer from 486 to Pentium MMX, my EtherExpress 16 network card worked fine with FreeBSD. On the Pentium machine, I kept getting unpredictable timeouts on remote connections. After awhile (when there are too many timeouts...I think), the connection would be terminated and the card would function no longer. If I tried to ping a remote machine after I lost a connection, I would get a message saying no (send) buffers available. I could re-establish the network if I do ifconfig "down" and then "up". Is this a knwon problem because the release notes mentioned that the network card is not recommended due to driver instability? Is there anything I could do to fix the problem? P.S. The last version I had on my 486 was 2.2.1-GAMMA. But I'm using 2.2.1-RELEASE version on my Pentium machine. Thanks, Frank Yang