From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 5 04:17:52 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 1175B16A4CE for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 04:17:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.devrandom.org.uk (82-68-135-38.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.68.135.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7D3343FE9 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 04:17:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from howells@kde.org) Received: from localhost.invalid (0-c-6e-e5-27-1.middleearth [192.168.1.194]) by mail.devrandom.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D86E133A9 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 12:17:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Chris Howells Organization: K Desktop Environment To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 12:17:48 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.93 References: <000001c3bafc$38a92540$5201a8c0@intranet.absol.co.za> In-Reply-To: <000001c3bafc$38a92540$5201a8c0@intranet.absol.co.za> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5863 DF82 C34D 7291 CC63 CA1B 17C2 2ED7 3379 5A2C MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200312051217.48350.howells@kde.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 12:17:52 -0000 =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-----