From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 8 19:28:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA00717 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 19:28:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from elka-gtw.EE.itb.ac.id (elka-gtw.ee.itb.ac.id [167.205.48.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA00639 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 19:27:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from waskita@itb.ac.id) Received: from localhost (waskita@localhost) by elka-gtw.EE.itb.ac.id (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA26150 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 10:27:35 +0700 (JAVT) (envelope-from waskita@itb.ac.id) X-Authentication-Warning: elka-gtw.EE.itb.ac.id: waskita owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 10:27:34 +0700 (JAVT) From: waskita adijarto X-Sender: waskita@elka-gtw.EE.itb.ac.id To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: buggy 3c509 driver In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * situation: I used 3c509 Combo ISA ethernet card in some of my FreeBSD routers. *result: - in heavy traffic, "no buffer space available" messages appeared in syslogd. - the card become unable to receive/transmit packet, after that *temporary (quick) solution: reboot the machine whenever 'no buffer space available' messages start to show up in syslogd. *permanent solution: - replace the 3c509 cards with NE2000 cards (or anything), - put the 3c509 cards in non router machines (e.g: windoze box'). *question: - is there a way to use 3c509 cards in FreeBSD ? patches ? otherwise the cards will spend their lives in windoze box :-( - 3COM 3c509 driver is listed as (buggy) in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT. Is this what it means as (buggy) ? -wasz- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message