From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 28 22:23:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B3BF37B403 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 22:19:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jonc.itouch ([192.168.2.21]) by itouch.co.nz with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15nCXQ-000PGn-00; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 17:19:44 +1200 Received: (from jonc@localhost) by jonc.itouch (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f8T5Jgm65443; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 17:19:42 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 17:19:42 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Mark Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network card dying? Message-ID: <20010929171942.A65381@jonc.itouch> References: <000901c14836$830f33d0$0200000a@redmond.corp.microsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000901c14836$830f33d0$0200000a@redmond.corp.microsoft.com>; from mw@lanfear.com on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 08:59:08AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 08:59:08AM -0700, Mark wrote: > > > I'm suddenly seeing the following in my logs, around when my system is > freezing up for a few seconds at a time: > > > Sep 28 04:48:36 akira /kernel: fxp0: device timeout > Sep 28 05:11:36 akira /kernel: fxp0: device timeout [...] > > is this likely a network card dying, or this just be an issue in > the kernel that a reboot will take care of? Why not check the cable connections first? Usually it's 'cos someone's introduced a marginal cable or the connection's loose. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message