Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 10:21:49 -0600 (MDT) From: Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com> To: Gordon Henderson <gordon@drogon.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and 3com590/595 cards. Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960610101937.10530E-100000@gallup.cia-g.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960610121152.11931B-100000@unicorn>
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I haven't had many problems with the vx0 driver except yesterday it got weird system errors then it rebooted! Never seen that kind of error before. So I was trying 3c509's - This driver is said to be buggy too. [It only detects it half the time when booting.] I really would like to use 3com cards.. anyone have workarounds? Any way I can help? I use 2.1R. On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Gordon Henderson wrote: > > I recently built a new server with FreeBSD 2.2-960501-SNAP to make use of > the 3com590 cards that we wished to use. > > The driver support for them is very flakey. I can repeatedly cause the > system to stop all traffic flowing over the ethernet card, requiring an > ifconfig vx0 down ; sleep 1 ; ifconfig vx0 up > to restore connectivity. > > Is anyone working on a better driver? especially one that uses all > features of the hardware (and not just polling) as we also have a > requirement to use 3c595's as soon as possible to make use of their > 100Mb/sec transfers. > - Steve - Systems Manager - Community Internet Access - http://www.cia-g.com
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