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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Any experience with "Asus A8N-SLi" or "Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI"
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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!
 
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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)