Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:43:07 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with a carbus Realtek 8139 card Message-ID: <3C6AFA0B.44733465@mindspring.com> References: <20020213131817.A59929@energyhq.homeip.net>
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Miguel Mendez wrote: > And compiled a kernel modifying the NEWCARD template. Everything works > fine , except from time to time the network stops working. If I do a > ifconfig rl0 down and then ifconfig rl0 up it starts working again. Any > idea why is this happening? If I use the 16bit pcmcia nic this doesn't > happen, and it also didn't happen when this computer was running NetBSD > 1.5.2 You are using a realtek interface. They are known to be not very good. You can work around it by setting a timer, and handling the transmit and receive interrupts as people have been discussing for the ep driver (I have several of these, and they appear to work for me, if I do that). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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