Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:52:46 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EtherExpress PRO/100 problem? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980220145148.17705G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980219201208.1432C-100000@luke.cpl.net>
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On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > > > Since upgrading our FreeBSD servers to Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B cards, > > > we have been experiencing minor pauses, for a second or more on telnet > > > sessions. Is there anything I can do to maybe correct this, such as > > > forcing a certain mode(half duplex, 10mb) ?? > > > > That is a good idea; do it in the EtherExpress setup program. > > I think I found the problem. It was sharing the same IRQ as another > network card. I took the card out, since the lame as shit BIOS(courtesy of > Phoenix) won't let you change it. Would this cause something like this to > happen?? Two PCI ones? Odd, PCI is supposed to arbitrate that. Sounds like a firmware bug. I had an old Phoenix BIOS (4.01 or thereabouts) that you had to manually set the IRQs for the PCI bus. Took a bit to figure out which slot was which but you knew where everything was. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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