From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 17 14:50:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA02820 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 14:50:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA02789 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 14:50:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wpeters@xylan.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id OAA08619; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 14:48:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id OAA08955; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 14:48:49 -0800 Received: from xylan.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id PAA18315; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 15:48:47 -0700 Message-ID: <3651FD50.351BBC9E@xylan.com> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 15:48:48 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Xylan Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dg@root.com CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fxp0 vs. 3.0 -- more info References: <199811172245.OAA00614@root.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Greenman wrote: > > >First, I should point out this machine HAD BEEN RUNNING 2.2.6-RELEASE > >just fine, right up until I lobotomized^H^H^H^H^H^Hupgraded it to 3.0. > ... > >If I try to configure fxp0, the system hangs immediately, before the > >console can even move the cursor to the next line on the screen following > >the ifconfig command. The command I used is: > > > > ifconfig fxp0 inet 192.168.110.151 > > > >and the system just hangs hard. > > > >Help!?!?!?!? > > I'm not aware of any problems with the fxp driver in 3.x. I have a system > here with the same rev 5 82558 chip, on the motherboard, that you have there > and it works fine with 3.x. Can I tickle the fxp driver to me a little more verbose when I use the ifconfig command? It would be useful to see what it thinks it's doing on the way to hanging the system. -- Wes Peters Who's going to save you Principal Engineer When you're a slave to Xylan Corporation A diamond as big as the Ritz wpeters@xylan.com -- Jimmy Buffett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message