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To: Ade Barkah <mbarkah@hemi.com>
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Subject: Help: le0 gets stuck at OACTIVE.
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>>>>> "Ade" == Ade Barkah <mbarkah@hemi.com> writes:

Ade> Hello, One of our machines has a DEC204-AB (ethernet, 10-BaseT)
Ade> on it, running FreeBSD 2.1-RELEASE. However, eventually the
Ade> interface gets stuck in OACTIVE; I can force this condition by
Ade> doing a ping -f on the interface. The machine has another
Ade> interface (SMC Ultra C)... I can ping -f on that one all day long
Ade> without problems. Sometimes doing a 'ifconfig le0 down' followed
Ade> by an 'ifconfig le0 up' fixes the problem momentarily.

Ade> Some more background. Here's what dmesg says:

Ade> | le0 at 0x300-0x31f irq 5 maddr 0xd0000 msize 2048 on isa | le0:
Ade> DE204-AB ethernet address 08:00:2b:93:3b:e7


I file a PR about this some time ago. If you re-configure the card to
use more than 2K then the problem will go away. I had this problem
consistently with a 2K setting and since reconfiguring the card (over 6
months ago) I've not seen it happen again.

You'll have to use the dos configure disk you had with the card to change
the card's settings.