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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=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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= =20 friends machine, the network card just seemed to stop passing any data afte= r=20 some period of time between a few minutes and 24 hours or so. After much mu= ch=20 much wasting of time and money, it turned out to not actually be a problem= =20 with the network card, but the Netgear hub that it was plugged into=20 "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= =20 about as useful as a chocolate teapot. =2D --=20 Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt/C++/PHP Developer: http://www.kde.org =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/0HdsF8Iu1zN5WiwRAjgmAKCRg6CZKZqGnk7/9Q10xMRtAr8x6gCfZ7NO iFMiAOvrpOIOUaMea6ailTU=3D =3DIGmz =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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