From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 22 1:41:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gate.nentec.de (gate2.nentec.de [194.25.215.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7168C37B40D for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 01:41:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nenny.nentec.de (root@nenny.nentec.de [153.92.64.1]) by gate.nentec.de (8.11.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g4M8fel12786; Wed, 22 May 2002 10:41:40 +0200 Received: from nentec.de (andromeda.nentec.de [153.92.64.34]) by nenny.nentec.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id g4M8fnZ11316; Wed, 22 May 2002 10:41:49 +0200 Message-ID: <3CEB59CD.7030708@nentec.de> Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 10:41:49 +0200 From: Andy Sporner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: de-at, de, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nigel Roberts Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possible problem with rl (Realtek) ethernet card driver in 4.5-STABLE References: <20020522023118.GD31847@katie.paradise.net.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS-perl11-milter (http://amavis.org/) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > >Does this look like a driver bug, a hardware fault or all of the >above? I realise the realtek chips are not the best, but they >shouldn't cause a box to fall over :) > >Here are the details from the core dumps I got, which led me to > Hi, I had (in the words of Andrew Lloyd Webber) some "Strange Things Mystifying" when I was writting a device driver that were very similar. Later I upgraded to version 5.0 PREVIEW and the same code performed flawlessly. I have some deep seated suspicians that the VIA chipset had some problems in the 4.X releases. You might try a newer release (if not 4.5). Cheers Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message