Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 14:21:24 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: dg@root.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fxp0 hangs on a PC164 using STABLE Message-ID: <20000716142124.A14427@cicely8.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <200007142125.OAA05782@mass.osd.bsdi.com>; from msmith@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 02:25:05PM -0700 References: <200007141707.KAA16976@implode.root.com> <200007142125.OAA05782@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 02:25:05PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > >fxp is not supported on the Alpha, and known to be unreliable there. > > >Contact the maintainer or use a different card. FWIW, this actually > > >sounds like an issue that's been seen on x86 as well. > > > > It does? I've never heard of a bug report like this for x86 and in fact I'm > > not aware of any bugs in the driver for x86. > > It's been described many times, actually. It sounds a lot like a bad > interaction between either the card or the driver and the hub/switch at > the other end, however it's shown up on a reasonably regular basis. At least I can say that the card/switch is not the problem here. The card and the switch are fixed configured to 100M/full-duplex. There are several x86 FreeBSD hosts with fxp cards running at the same switch without any problems. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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