From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 7 11:42:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shadowmere.student.utwente.nl (wit401305.student.utwente.nl [130.89.236.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B13FC14D7D for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 11:42:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daeron@Wit401305.student.utwente.nl) Received: from localhost (daeron@localhost) by shadowmere.student.utwente.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA01380 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 20:42:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daeron@Wit401305.student.utwente.nl) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 20:42:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Pascal Hofstee To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Macronix driver bugs ? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I today tried to upgrade my SMC-8216 Elita Ultra ethernet card to a nice Macronix 98713 card a friend of mine had lying around. It's a FreeBSD-3.2-STABLE system cvsupped and buildworld today (July 7th) I checked the LINT file for support and found the following: device mx0 After rebuilding my kernel and ensuring etc/rc.conf contained the proper settings for the network card ... (changing all the ed0 references to mx0) I found that my system would always lock up somewhere during the boot-phase or when it even passed that it would lock up during starting xdm. I had it lock up my system completely during PCI-probing once (before detecting vga0), during network configuration ... hostname, ifconfig or starting of network services like samba e.g. -------------------- Pascal Hofstee - daeron@shadowmere.student.utwente.nl -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d- s+: a-- C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W- N+ o? K- w--- O? M V? PS+ PE Y-- PGP-- t+ 5 X-- R tv+ b+ DI D- G e* h+ r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message