From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 16 17:45:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from begemot.org (negara.cs.waikato.ac.nz [130.217.248.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6542814EB7 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 17:45:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (modem51.slip.waikato.ac.nz [130.217.97.150]) by begemot.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA15522; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 13:47:20 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.6.12) id LAA07309; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 11:47:52 +1300 (NZDT) Message-ID: <19991017114752.20704@mojave.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 11:47:52 +1300 From: Greg Lehey To: Brooks Davis , Joshua Breindel Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Very quick question... References: <0FAAFBF846ABD211A19100805FA6A55AAD3979@gold.dolby.com> <19991015113032.B19760@orion.ac.hmc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <19991015113032.B19760@orion.ac.hmc.edu>; from Brooks Davis on Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 11:30:32AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 15 October 1999 at 11:30:32 -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 10:57:52AM -0700, Breindel, Joshua wrote: >> The FreeBSD Handbook refers to the kernel support for the 3Com 3C509 (ep0) >> as being "buggy". Is this something I should worry about (this is the >> network card that I have)? > > Maybe. Lots of people have reported good performance and no problems > while others have had no end of trouble. If it works for you then just > ignore the note. If it doesn't, then get a new nic. I've been meaning to remove this reference for some time, and maybe I should. But just a week or so ago I had the driver hang on two different machines. If this happens to you, do this: # ifconfig ep0 down # ifconfig ep0 up That has always unwedged things for me. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message