From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 12 16:58:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA17837 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 16:58:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA17832 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 16:58:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA20917; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 17:59:35 -0700 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 17:59:35 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199602130059.RAA20917@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: gnn@wrs.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with 3Com 3C589C combo PCMICIA. In-Reply-To: <199602122352.AA02152@loire.wrs.com> References: <199602122352.AA02152@loire.wrs.com> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk George Neville-Neil writes: > I'm now running FreeBSD on my WinBook (486DX/33 16M/340M) and it > has a PCMCIA ethernet card from 3Com. My problem is that after a > while (say a few thousand packets) it hangs. Hmm, I am not seeing that problem on my box, although it uses a 3C589B (according to 3Com, the only difference is in the connector). > I can sometimes get > the interface back by ifconfig'ing it down and then up, but this is > not an optimal solution. Sometimes when I ping from the machine to > the net in this situation I get a "sendto: no buffer space" or > similar message making me think that there's an mbuf leak somewhere > in the zp driver. Any pointers? AFAIK, there are no leaks that I've seen. I've even been an NFS client using my box and things don't seem to be a problem. What settings did you use in the NVRAM w/regards to the baud rate and such? I'm not sure, but it may be possible that the card handles itself differently with the settings. Mine is setup for 'server/38400 baud' mode, whatever that means. Nate