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To: Craig Huckabee <huck@mispwoso.nosc.mil>
From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
Subject: de driver bug?
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>
>  I've always got those messages when the card looses connectivity - like
>  when you unplug the cable from the card.  I think its just telling you
>  that it is having connection problems.  Unless you have a flakey network
>  it could be a flakey card.

Ok...this is the scoop.

I have a '486 PCI MB (ACER) with a genuine SMC ethernet card. The 
identical hardware (tested by swapping out hard disks)....

1) Works in FreeBSD 2.1.0R
2) Works in Linux 2.0.0
3) Doesnt work in FreeBSD 2.1.5R. The installation boot procedure (NFS)
fails,and a system built on another machine finds but cannot use the de card.

I think that the problem is that I dont get any interrupts. I got an "abnormal"
interrupt a few times...but now I am not.

Whats changed in 2.1.5? is it the de driver, or the PCI stuff?

Dennis


>
>  --Craig
>
>> 
>> Im gettng the messages "abnormal interrupt" from the de driver. Anyone
know what
>> might cause this? (note that the board doesnt work in the MB)
>> 
>> Dennis
>> 
>
>
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