From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 17 1:22:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from firebat.bushong.net (c128625-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.176.225.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48F9337B424 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 01:22:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dbushong@localhost) by firebat.bushong.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8H8Mg709700; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 01:22:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dbushong) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 01:22:42 -0700 From: David Bushong To: Allen Campbell Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: anyone have a working Netgear FA310TX right now? Message-ID: <20000917012242.C402@bushong.net> References: <39C2F307.590C1C2B@verinet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <39C2F307.590C1C2B@verinet.com>; from allenc@verinet.com on Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 10:11:51PM -0600 X-Floating-Sheep-Port: 0xbaa Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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