From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 9 10:32:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub1.rjf.com (mailhub1.rjf.com [170.12.128.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0B2B37B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:32:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from exmta2.rjf.com by mailhub1.rjf.com with ESMTP; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:29:27 -0500 Received: by exmta.rjf.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:32:25 -0500 Message-Id: <6D5097D4B56AD31190D50008C7B1579BC97DD7@exlan5.rjf.com> From: Ian Cartwright To: "'Jeroen C. van Gelderen'" , "Jeffrey J. Mountin" , Stefan Molnar Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Intel PRO/100+ driver or hardware? Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:32:23 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A few weeks back I mentioned a similar problem I was having with a Compaq Dexkpro EN. It has a built in 82559 chip. Under FreeBSD it would hang every so often with a device timeout. Under Win2k it works great. I tried everything I could think of (swapping cables, hubs, etc.) with no success for FreeBSD. I tried the mailing lists but no one saw my post I guess. ;-/ I hope this helps to corroborate your story... Ian -----Original Message----- From: Jeroen C. van Gelderen [mailto:jeroen@vangelderen.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 1:16 PM To: Jeffrey J. Mountin; Stefan Molnar Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel PRO/100+ driver or hardware? --On Monday, January 08, 2001 17:53:12 -0600 "Jeffrey J. Mountin" wrote: > At 08:17 AM 1/8/01 -0800, Stefan Molnar wrote: > >> I have noticed that the eepro does not like some hubs/switches. >> I have a netgear 8 port 10mb switch, and the eepro just goes to >> a crawl with the same things you see. I have tried over a dozen >> eepro cards (had this switch for almost 2 years), and countless >> ethernet cables. I bought a 4 port hub, connected the xover to the >> swtitch and the eepro on the hub, and bamf, those problems went >> away. The tulip cards that most of the eepros replaced worked >> very happly. > > Almost every 8255x card works just fine with a Netgear FS105 here in all > modes. Say "almost" since I don't have an old 82556 card around. One of > systems has a newer version on an Asus A7V running -stable, so doubt the > problem is with FBSD or the card. Good cables and nailing down the modes > fix most problems. Most likely a hardware or disposition, as we seem to > say "doesn't like" when problems like this crop up, issue here. I just replied to Jonathan Lemon's mail describing why I think it doesn't look like bad cabling, wrong duplex/speed settings or bad hubs. I'm fairly convinced that my fxp cards are to blame. Either a bad batch of cards or a rather marginal design that doesn't like hubs (or cheap switches)... Cheers, Jeroen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message