From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 18 0:44:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from cod.progroup.com (cod.progroup.com [207.44.190.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3362637B401 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 00:44:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from craig@progroup.com) Received: from progroup.com (guppy.progroup.com [207.44.190.237]) by cod.progroup.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA83902; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 00:44:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from craig@progroup.com) Message-ID: <3B553E47.BF8AAEDD@progroup.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 00:44:07 -0700 From: Craig Shaver Organization: MyIttyBitty.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: NIC recommendations? Intel fxp driver problems ... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Running in 100baseT. Tried to add an old intel 82558 pci card and got scrolling timeout SCB messages on the second nic during boot. Had to shut off the box and remove it to get it to boot properly. The old 82558 cards had been working great in 3.x. Did the driver change? thanks, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > Are you running it as a 10baseT card or a 100baseT ? The problem for most > only seems to be in 10baseT mode, and yes its the onboard one that gives > the grief. The PCI version seems to work just fine. > > ---Mike > > On 17 Jul 2001 18:48:17 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware you wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I am searching for a new network card to test on a 4.3-REL system. For > >some reason the fxp driver (Intel pro/100) is causing problems. I am > >getting excessive timeouts and spontaneous reboots under heavy load. Do > >any of the other supported cards work well with 4.3-REL? > > > >Some of my problems may be due to using onboard Intel 82559. The mail > >archives showed several people having timeout or reboot problems with > >this chip set. Any other experiences with Intel 82559 based NIC? > > > >thanks, > > Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) > Sentex Communications Corp, > Waterloo, Ontario, Canada > "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers > could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) -- Craig Shaver, My Itty Bitty Dot Com POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088 (650)390-0654 http://www.progroup.com/ mailto:craig@progroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message