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Date:      Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:13:39 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Any experience with "Asus A8N-SLi" or "Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI" mobos?
Message-ID:  <20050216061339.GE2900@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <84dead720502151902778f893c@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20050208193338.6ee460d9.mark@hyow.eu.org> <20050215113649.7bfcb1cd.mark@hyow.eu.org> <20050215180011.GD38158@dragon.nuxi.com> <20050215231416.449c8695.mark@hyow.eu.org> <84dead720502151902778f893c@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 03:02:07AM +0000, Joseph Koshy wrote:
> > My main, if not only problem is the NIC being so unreliable.
> You may want to upgrade to 5.3-STABLE.
> I installed 5.3-RELEASE on an ASUS K8V (which has the same
> NIC).  I kept the following loop running in the background
> 
>   while :; do
>   sleep 20
>   ifconfig sk0 down
>   ifconfig sk0 up
>   done
> 
> this kept the network driver usable while I downloaded
> the -stable tree.

Great advice.  Thanks!
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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