From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 20 15:24:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from EnContacto.Net (adsl-63-205-16-205.dsl.mtry01.pacbell.net [63.205.16.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2880337B724 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 15:24:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eculp@EnContacto.Net) Received: (from root@localhost) by EnContacto.Net (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f2KNNtg55602; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 15:23:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eculp@EnContacto.Net) Received: from 63.205.16.202 ( [63.205.16.202]) as user eculp@EnContacto.Net by Mail.InternetSalon.Org with HTTP; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 15:23:55 -0800 Message-ID: <985130635.3ab7e68b0a904@Mail.InternetSalon.Org> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 15:23:55 -0800 From: "Edwin L. Culp" To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Pierre Beyssac , daeron@wit401305.student.utwente.nl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CURRENT instability References: <20010315081658.A799@shadowmere.student.utwente.nl> <20010319083012.A53628@shadowmere.student.utwente.nl> <20010319121606.A89188@enst.fr> <985111670.3ab79c76a1449@Mail.InternetSalon.Org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 2.3.7-cvs X-Originating-IP: 63.205.16.202 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting Dag-Erling Smorgrav : > "Edwin L. Culp" 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. > > > Has this or another fix been committed? > > No, Certain People [tm] are opposed to it, though it's not clear why. I managed to get things in sync enough to get the network working. Now I'm making world, runing X and doing several port updates that have been on hold since the begining of February, all at the same time. Without your patch it would have crashed within the first couple of minutes but with it, it's just chugging along like a happy little K6-2 300, slow but maybe on its way to being sure again. Thanks for coming up with such a simple and effective solution. I was almost ready to retire this for a Dell 4000e that everyone is talking about. But as someone else said, first I would prefer to have a little more consulting money coming in:-) It would really be nice to have this committed, if it doesn't break anything, to not have to be patching every time. Thanks again, ed > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. --Alvin Toffler To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message