From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 2 21:18:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alcatraz.wolfpaw.net (alcatraz.wolfpaw.net [216.18.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 21A3237B423 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 21:18:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 30815 invoked by uid 1440); 3 Sep 2000 04:34:44 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Sep 2000 04:34:44 -0000 Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 22:34:44 -0600 (MDT) From: To: Kent Stewart Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: [Urgent] 3Com 3C90X Cards not Compatible? In-Reply-To: <39B00C30.203978D5@urx.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hrm, I'll give that a shot and see what happens. Thanks :) Dale. On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > freebsd@alcatraz.wolfpaw.net wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > > > Recently I changed the ethernet cards in our gateway from 2 D-Link > > 538TX's to 2 3Com 3C90X's don't remember which one, the 100BaseTX full > > duplex ones (509b maybe?). Anyway, when we had the D-Link cards in the > > machine, all was good - no problems. Yesterday I added the 2 3Com cards > > and now it will just reboot - with no notice - spontainiosly. Its not a > > huge issue, but it causes intermittant 2 minute network failures, which is > > just really teally annoying. There are no system logs to show the reboot, > > and it doesn't even stop to dismount the drives, which is > > worrisome. Anyone have any ideas on why this might be occuring? or > > how I can find out? Ive tried fstat (as we had another FreeBSD server > > crash from a crond prog that left open files everywhere) and it doesn't > > seem to show any problems. > > I have two machines running 905b. I pulled the Intel 100+ out of one > of them because it would loose full duplex after awhile. It seemed to > have back pressure on it when tightened down with the screw. The 3Com > didn't have that problem. > > I would pull them out and reseat them. It sounds like one wasn't > seated properly. > > Kent > > > > > Thanks in Advance :) > > Dale > > Sysadmin, Wolfpaw.net > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com > http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html > FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message