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Subject: Re: Xircom Watchdog Time-out Bug 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 07 May 2001 21:10:22 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 11:15:26 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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> From: Dave Tweten <tweten@nas.nasa.gov>
> Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 21:10:22 -0700
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> I have a Xircom CE3B-100BTX 10/100 PCCard that has always worked sort-of okay 
> with the STABLE xe driver when set up with a fixed IP address.  There's always 
> been the minor problem that it suffers one watchdog timer alarm before being 
> successfully configured.  With a fixed IP, that's no real problem, but with 
> DHCP, dhclient gets confused by the watchdog and fails consistantly.
> 
> What the manual calls the "Link Integrity" LED on the dongle stays off until 
> the watchdog timer power cycles the card.
> 
> If someone with some experience with this driver can shed some light on the 
> problem, dhclient and I would appreciate it.

I want to try to fix this when I get a little time, but it's not a
problem for me, so it may not happen in my lifetime. :-(

What I wonder is why it's a problem for you? I use DHCP exclusively to
configure my network on my laptop as it moves between three different
nets on a regular basis. While I see the timeout messages every time
the card starts, it has never effected DHCP operation.

What DHCP server are you using? I'm using isc-dhcp2 in all locations,
but this should be irrelevant as the server never gets a packet until
the card comes on-line. How are your pccard.conf, rc.conf, and
dhclient.conf set up?

I have nothing special in dhclient.conf and only a list of really
available IRQs in pccard.conf. But I have several things in rc.conf:
pccard_enable="YES"
pccard_ifconfig="DHCP"
pccardd_flags="-z"

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


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