Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 12:50:13 -0500 From: Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com> To: Isaac Waldron <iwaldron@WPI.EDU> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netgear cards randomly dying? Message-ID: <39DCBF55.2506EE34@planetwe.com> References: <000d01c02ef2$ecfc60a0$98e5d782@res.WPI.NET>
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I've seen this happen twice with this type of card on a Linux box, but never under FreeBSD. The problem with the linux box appears to be related to brownouts - since I put the system on a UPS I haven't see this problem. It was exactly as you describe. The lights would dim, and it would simply cease to function. Upon rebooting it was fine. Isaac Waldron wrote: > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.1.1 stable, built on 9/28 from fresh sources. I have > a Netgear FA310TX network card which is detected correctly as dc0 and works > fine, most of the time. > > Occasionally, after a week or so of uptime, the card simply stops receiving > packets from the network. It's as if the card is getting reset to be down > without indicating that to the system. I've tried a `ifconfig` down-up > cycle several times, but the only thing that seems to work is a reboot. I'm > also running a simple firewall using ipfw, if that makes any difference. > > This card works fine under windoze, so I don't think it's hardware related. > Any known issues with this card? > > Thanks, > Isaac Waldron > iwaldron at wpi dot edu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Drew Sanford Systems Administrator Planetwe.com Email: drew@planetwe.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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