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Date:      Thu, 7 Dec 2000 10:02:59 -0500
From:      Mike Galvez <mrg8n@mail.virginia.edu>
To:        Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: failed to force tx and rx to idle state... dang
Message-ID:  <20001207100259.C303@m.mail.virginia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <001901c0605c$9c32da50$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>; from matt@gsicomp.on.ca on Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:47:22AM -0500
References:  <20001207085336.A303@m.mail.virginia.edu> <001901c0605c$9c32da50$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>

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Yes, I tried that before I sent this to the list. The state changes from up to
down and when brought back up it still does not pass packets.


On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:47:22AM -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> 
> 
> > I hope someone has some wisdom to share (other than not using cheap NICs).
> I have
> > a Netgear FA 310tx installed on my 4.0 FreeBSD box. It has worked fine for
> the
> > last couple of months but occasionally I get the following message:
> >
> > dc0: failed to force tx and rx to idle state
> >
> > Until I can get a better NIC, is there a way to restart/reset this
> hardware
> > without having to take the server down?
> 
> Have you tried 'ifconfig dc0 down' followed by 'ifconfig dc0 up'?
> 
> --
> Matthew Emmerton
> 
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