From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Oct 13 18:48:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA13570 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 18:48:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rovis.com (tony1.mpinet.net [208.6.199.201] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA13548; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 18:48:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adchen@skatefaq.com) Received: from [138.210.141.219] ([138.210.141.219]) by rovis.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA06171; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 21:47:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Sender: adchen@skatefaq.com (Unverified) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 21:50:22 -0400 To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG From: Tony Chen Subject: ethernet card weirdness Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all, Have an odd problem, not sure if a hardware problem or a network/OS problem. System: VA-502 motherboard 32 MB 6x86 PR200+ FreeBSD 2.2.7-stable SMC EtherPower PCI card, (SMC8432T) 10-baseT Part 1: ------- Originally this machine was using 2.2.2-stable. The PCI Ethernet card is on de0 and has about 16 ip aliased on it. Every few days (sometimes several times a day) the interface will stop working. No packets out, no packets in - link light on the ethernet card shows link (green) but no traffic. There *were* only two ways to wake it back up: 1) reboot, 2) do "ifconfig de0 down" followed by "ifconfig de0 up". We had a script do #2 whenever it could ping out. Crude, but it worked. Part 2: ------- A while later, we upgraded to 2.2.7-stable. The network card still goes silent but now the ifconfig down/up trick no longer wakes the interface back up. Now only a reboot will make it work again. Not good. The included DOS diagnostic programs show the card appears to be fine hardware-wise. We even swapped in another ethernet card, exact same model, brand-new, and the problem still occurs. We tried different PCI slots on the motherboard with each card. Still happens. So is this a hardware compatibility problem or an OS problem? Thanks for any help. -Tony Chen adchen@skatefaq.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message