From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 2 07:19:47 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB5E16A4CE for ; Sat, 2 Apr 2005 07:19:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83E8E43D2F for ; Sat, 2 Apr 2005 07:19:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) j327K0b88436 for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 23:20:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 23:19:45 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1478 In-Reply-To: <851613714.20050401035520@wanadoo.fr> Importance: Normal Subject: lnc driver, was RE: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 07:19:47 -0000 owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: > Bernt Hansson writes: > >> Your machine is NOT on the HCL list. > > "The lnc(4) driver supports the following adapters: > > > If the Ethernet card on the machine is supported, this implies that > the machine is supported (otherwise why mention the card?). The lnc driver is a special case, however. The Lance chipset was one of the ones implemented on Sparc systems, where it worked well. On PC systems it was implemented in ISA cards most commonly the NE2100. These implementations usually stank horribly as the chipset and card it's on are busmasters, and ISA busmaster implementations are horribly fickle. I've had many crashes on otherwise rock solid systems back 10 years ago when I was fooling around with these cards. So apparently did most other admins as the NE2100 card was never popular. (unlike the NE2000 and NE3200) Another problem was that ISA cards cannot busmaster past the 16MB boundary and Netware 3.x had an arcane way of setting up SCSI and NIC busmasters which most admins didn't pay attention to, thus they had problems. If you really have enabled a Lance adapter in your Vectra then no wonder your having problems, turn it off immediately and put in some other NIC card. Ted