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Date:      Fri, 5 Dec 2003 12:17:48 +0000
From:      Chris Howells <howells@kde.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Realtek 8139 unstable?
Message-ID:  <200312051217.48350.howells@kde.org>
In-Reply-To: <000001c3bafc$38a92540$5201a8c0@intranet.absol.co.za>
References:  <000001c3bafc$38a92540$5201a8c0@intranet.absol.co.za>

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Hi,

On Friday 05 December 2003 06:51, Chris Visser wrote:
> The Machine runs fine, most of the time, but every now and again my
> network card stops working for no reason. =A0Rebooting the box fixes this
> for a while, but the it starts again.

What is the card plugged into at the other end? I had the same problem on a=
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friends machine, the network card just seemed to stop passing any data afte=
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some period of time between a few minutes and 24 hours or so. After much mu=
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much wasting of time and money, it turned out to not actually be a problem=
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"crashing" on that port and refusing to pass any more data.

I still have to try and take that damn hub back and get a refund since it's=
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about as useful as a chocolate teapot.

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Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org
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