Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 01:22:42 -0700 From: David Bushong <david@bushong.net> To: Allen Campbell <allenc@verinet.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: anyone have a working Netgear FA310TX right now? Message-ID: <20000917012242.C402@bushong.net> In-Reply-To: <39C2F307.590C1C2B@verinet.com>; from allenc@verinet.com on Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 10:11:51PM -0600 References: <AAEMIFFLKPKLAOJHJANHGEEJCFAA.pavalos@theshell.com> <39C2F307.590C1C2B@verinet.com>
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On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 10:11:51PM -0600, Allen Campbell wrote: > Peter Avalos wrote: > > > > > Is anyone's dc0 based netgear card working with latest -stable? > > > > I haven't had a problem on any of the -stable's. My latest is: > > FreeBSD lithium.theshell.com 4.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE #0: Sun Sep 10 > > 17:16:56 PDT 2000 > > > > > Sep 15 02:57:14 firebat /kernel: dc0: watchdog timeout > > > Sep 15 02:57:14 firebat /kernel: dc0: failed to force tx and rx > > > to idle state > > > > > > > I don't know what those errors mean, but is your network cable good? > > Don't discount the possibility that the card is just hosed. I've had a > run of 4 bad FA310TX's in the past 6 odd months. The reliability of > these cards, in my experience, approaches that of forecasting weather. > Actually <cue sheepish expression> it turns out I had the card in a PCI slot which was sharing an irq (10) with the fxp0 in the slot next to it. Sigh. Silly PC hardware. Moving it to a free slot fixed the problem. --David Bushong To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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