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Date:      Sun, 21 Feb 1999 14:30:34 -0500
From:      "Bernard J. Courtney" <berniec@bellatlantic.net>
To:        Brian Budnick <clubkid@bzzzz.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 100BaseT Problem
Message-ID:  <36D05EDA.A1807EDD@bellatlantic.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902210959010.1268-100000@stardust.bzzzz.com>

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I have had problems with Netgear cards in Windows boxes as well, they seem to have
a large number of defective cards that they send out...  I don't have anything
against the company- they make some great hubs, and switches, but I wouldn't put a
Netgear card in one of the boxes that I support.

Just my $.02

BC

Brian Budnick wrote:

> Bernard,
>
> I'm not using a 3Com card in my FreeBSD machine. One is a Ne2000 card
> and the other is a NetGear 2000 Card... Does anyone have any ideas?
> Please help me.
>
> Brian.
>
> On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Bernard J. Courtney wrote:
>
> > I couldn't get my 3Com card to work with FreeBSD either...anyone have ideas-
> > it is the 3c509B PCI card??
> >
> > Bernie
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian Budnick <clubkid@bzzzz.com>
> > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > Date: Sunday, February 21, 1999 12:58 AM
> > Subject: 100BaseT Problem
> >
> >
> > >
> > >Question:
> > >
> > >I currently have my FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE machine setup with two ethernet
> > >cards in it. The first ethernet card is a 100-Base-T card which is
> > >configured for a fake network of 10.0.0.x. The Second ethernet card is
> > >a 10-Base-T card which is setup for the real network of 209.90.xxx.xxx.
> > >I have natd running under type 'open' which seems to work Ok. It was
> > >running great for about 1 hour and then i tried to send a file across
> > >the 100-Base-T connection to the server and it locked up my FreeBSD
> > >machine totally. Ever since then I have nothing but troubles with the
> > >FreeBSD machine. I can't quite figure out what the problem is. On
> > >bootup this is what it looks like:
> > >
> > >Feb 20 21:08:37 stardust /kernel: real memory  = 75497472 (73728K bytes)
> > >Feb 20 21:08:37 stardust /kernel: avail memory = 69853184 (68216K bytes)
> > >Feb 20 21:08:37 stardust /kernel: Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at
> > >0xf0343000.
> > >Feb 20 21:08:37 stardust /kernel: eisa0:7 <@@@00=0x0> unknown device
> > >Feb 20 21:08:37 stardust /kernel: Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
> > >Feb 20 21:08:37 stardust /kernel: chip0: <Intel 82437VX PCI cache memory
> > >controller> rev 0x02 on pci0.0.0
> > >Feb 20 21:08:37 stardust /kernel: chip1: <Intel 82371SB PCI to ISA bridge>
> > >rev 0x01 on pci0.7.0
> > >Feb 20 21:08:37 stardust /kernel: ide_pci0: <Intel PIIX3 Bus-master IDE
> > >controller> rev 0x00 on pci0.7.1
> > >Feb 20 21:08:37 stardust /kernel: pn0: <82c168/82c169 PNIC 10/100BaseTX>
> > >rev 0x21 int a irq 10 on pci0.13.0
> > >Feb 20 21:08:37 stardust /kernel: pn0: Ethernet address: 00:a0:cc:3d:15:a6
> > >Feb 20 21:08:37 stardust /kernel: pn0: autoneg complete, link status good
> > >(half-duplex, 100Mbps)
> > >Feb 20 21:08:37 stardust /kernel: vga0
> > >Feb 20 21:08:37 stardust /kernel: : <Trident model 9420 VGA-compatible
> > >display device> rev 0xc3 on pci0.14.0
> > >Feb 20 21:08:37 stardust /kernel: ed1: <NE2000 PCI Ethernet (RealTek
> > >8029)> rev 0x00 int a irq 11 on pci0.15.0
> > >Feb 20 21:08:37 stardust /kernel: ed1: address 00:40:c7:2b:00:bb, type
> > >NE2000 (16 bit)
> > >
> > >Feb 20 21:08:37 stardust /kernel: IP packet filtering initialized, divert
> > >enabled, rule-based forwarding disabled, unlimited logging
> > >
> > >I seem to have some major video problems once it locks up and i compeltely
> > >turn the computer off and then back on.. I sometimes have to take the card
> > >out and put it back in before i can get a display to come up. I'm not
> > >sure if this is related some how?
> > >
> > >Is there people using FreeBSD 3.1 on 100 Base T and able to transfer files
> > >across at 100 Base T speeds without any problems? What may be causing my
> > >computer to completely lock up?
> > >
> > >Any with any ideas i would really appreciate it.
> > >
> > >Brian.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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