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Little Wooden Boy <notesoncircumscribingthesky@gmail.com> writes:

> As the hardware section told me I used the built in nvidia ethernet interface,
> at the time I first checked there was nothing about the nve hanging,
> but now it does, BUT i also get this
> 
> 
>  panic: nve_ifstart : attempted use of a free mbuf!
>  cpuid = 0
>  KDB: enter: panic
>  [thread pid 35 tid 100034]
>  stopped at kdb_enter+0x2f:nop
>  db> 
> 
> which is fair enough, but I cannot enter anything into db> because teh
> whole machine then either hangs or reboots, anyone else having the
> same problem?
> 
> I'm a bit new to BSD (been a linux user for about 2.5 years) so we may
> need babysteps ;)

Well, you didn't give us much to go on.  

What version of FreeBSD?
Were you trying to start an install when this happened?
If not, what were you doing?
If so, what kind of install?