From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 4 23:21:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74D7616A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 23:21:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2528043F93 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 23:21:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF14C2BD35 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 18:21:11 +1100 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 3907F51201; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 17:51:09 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 17:51:09 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Chris Visser Message-ID: <20031205072109.GH77051@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <000001c3bafc$38a92540$5201a8c0@intranet.absol.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PqX6tBBuHl4HmZHK" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000001c3bafc$38a92540$5201a8c0@intranet.absol.co.za> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Realtek 8139 unstable? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 07:21:15 -0000 --PqX6tBBuHl4HmZHK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Friday, 5 December 2003 at 8:51:30 +0200, Chris Visser wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running FreeBSD 5.1, on a box with a Digi Sync 570 card and a > Realtek 8139 network card. > > The Machine runs fine, most of the time, but every now and again my > network card stops working for no reason. Rebooting the box fixes this > for a while, but the it starts again. There have been reports of instabilities with the 8139. I don't know if it's really the hardware to blame or the driver, but the documentation for the hardware is apparently so terrible that it's difficult to say. I'm using an 8139 in a number of places, including (currently) my main server machine. The switch notes a large number of errors under load, and I'm thinking of changing to a different card the next time I have to reboot. Rather than reboot your machine, you'll probably find that the following sequence unwedges the card: ifconfig rl0 down ifconfig rl0 up I had this in a cron job at one point. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --PqX6tBBuHl4HmZHK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/0DHlIubykFB6QiMRAtXOAJ97THgiK7xslNG0ZAEhK33g1cTr5wCfXbrr N69Vc8UER34d/nyPtrKdX1A= =xWKl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PqX6tBBuHl4HmZHK--