Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 15:20:43 -0400 From: "Michael A. Smith" <msmith@code-fu.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: ed1 network problems on laptop Message-ID: <3F451B8B.4050603@code-fu.com>
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I've got a Sony VAIO PCG-FX101 (vanilla Celeron 600 laptop). It's run FreeBSD without a problem before. I just installed a new hard drive and installed 4.8-RELEASE on it. Now, I'm having all kinds of network problems that I didn't have a few days ago with the exact same hardware/OS (except the hard drive). I'm using a SMC PC-Card NIC (comes up as ed1). When I try to cvsup my source tree or ports, I get a message like this: TreeList failed: Network write failure: Connection closed That's not the only error I've seen while cvsupping, but the only one I've seen today. It happens every time I try to cvsup. When FTPing anything, the connection hangs mid-session (unless it's a small up/download). I've been able to install some ports, but usually they hang on the FTP download. When SSHing to other hosts, I can go merrily along, but within five or ten minutes, I lose the connection. SOME SUCCESS I was able to successfully cvsup my source tree and ports tree AND portinstall XFree86-4 and xcfe4 (big downloads, LOTS of dependencies). The way it worked was this: I'd tried and tried to cvsup without luck. I left the machine on and went to the office. FROM MY OFFICE FREEBSD MACHINE, I was able to log into my home machine, su to root, flawlessly cvsup and portinstall a bunch of things. I thought my problems were somehow solved -- WRONG. When I try doing any of those things from the machine itself, I can't. Since I was able to cvsup remotely, I've rebuilt my whole system (world and kernel) to 4.8-STABLE. SOME TRIAL-AND-ERROR I've done web searches on the error string above and found people with the same problem (apparently), but no definitive solution. I've made sure that there's no IRQ conflict with the NIC (it shared IRQ 3 with the sio1, which I've commented out of the kernel and rebuilt). I've also made sure the laptop's BIOS is set for a non-PNP OS. I had 4.8-STABLE running on this machine a few days ago (on a too-small hard drive) without a hitch. No network glitches at all. Argh. Any clues?? I don't wanrt to re-install from scratch -- and doubt it would do any good! -- Michael A. Smith <msmith@code-fu.com> Programmer at Large
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