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From: "Edwin L. Culp" <eculp@EnContacto.Net>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc: Pierre Beyssac <beyssac@enst.fr>,
	daeron@wit401305.student.utwente.nl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: CURRENT instability
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Quoting Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>:

> "Edwin L. Culp" <eculp@EnContacto.Net> writes:
> > My old K6-2 laptop has this problem and the patch seemed to fix the
> > crashes that I was experiencing under almost minimal load. The down
> > side is that it also brought me a pccard or DEVFS problem so no
> > network.
> 
> Uh, no. There's no way this patch can affect the functionality of your
> network adapter, and network interfaces don't care about DEVFS.

One of the error messages was that card0 didn't exist in /dev

I'm going to patch the kernel again and try to sync everything with a new world
and see what happens.

Thanks,

ed

> 
> > Has this or another fix been committed?
> 
> No, Certain People [tm] are opposed to it, though it's not clear why.
> 
> DES
> -- 
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org
> 


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