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From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl>
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Subject: Re: vx driver...
In-Reply-To: <199610301413.JAA04889@spoon.beta.com> from "Brian J. McGovern" at "Oct 30, 96 09:13:33 am"
To: mcgovern@spoon.beta.com (Brian J. McGovern)
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 20:31:03 +0100 (MET)
Cc: fgray@rice.edu, hackers@freebsd.org
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Brian J. McGovern wrote:
> I was just curious if anyone has been doing any recent development work
> on the vx driver (3Com 3C59x cards). I have one, have had no problems with it
> using the 3Com drivers, but it bombs whenever I do any sizeable writes
> under FreeBSD (through the current snap). Pings, and 1k messages usually
> survive, however, NFS, FTP, or any other _SENDS_ (receives seem to be ok)
> cause the machine to freeze. The only way out is to punch the reset button,
> or power cycle.
> 
> In any event, the reason I'm asking is taht if anyone has, I'd like to test
> the new code. If not, I'll be trying to set some time aside to find out
> why its freezing.

We are working to have a new one checked into the tree soon.
In the mean time you can look at ftp://freebsd.org/pub/incoming/*vx*

-Guido