Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:06:09 +0100 (MET) From: sos@FreeBSD.org To: mcgovern@spoon.beta.com (Brian J. McGovern) Cc: fgray@rice.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: vx driver... Message-ID: <199610301606.RAA02833@ravenock.cybercity.dk> In-Reply-To: <199610301413.JAA04889@spoon.beta.com> from "Brian J. McGovern" at Oct 30, 96 09:13:33 am
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In reply to Brian J. McGovern who wrote:
>
> I was just curious if anyone has been doing any recent development work
> on the vx driver (3Com 3C59x cards). I have one, have had no problems with it
> using the 3Com drivers, but it bombs whenever I do any sizeable writes
> under FreeBSD (through the current snap). Pings, and 1k messages usually
> survive, however, NFS, FTP, or any other _SENDS_ (receives seem to be ok)
> cause the machine to freeze. The only way out is to punch the reset button,
> or power cycle.
>
> In any event, the reason I'm asking is taht if anyone has, I'd like to test
> the new code. If not, I'll be trying to set some time aside to find out
> why its freezing.
Hmm, I'm using the one that was discussed on the lists some weeks ago.
I think its still in incoming on freefall. I've modified it a bit so
it compiles under -current, but so far it seems to work pretty well...
I think there has been a couple of patches on the lists for that
version too, but I'm not sure...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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