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Date:      Wed, 7 Jun 2000 17:21:45 -0700
From:      Paul Saab <paul@mu.org>
To:        Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>
Cc:        sthaug@nethelp.no, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fxp0: device timeout - reboot required
Message-ID:  <20000607172145.A72618@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <393EE388.411D6E56@partitur.se>; from girgen@partitur.se on Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 02:06:32AM %2B0200
References:  <393EBF45.B67A6655@partitur.se> <2148.960414026@verdi.nethelp.no> <393EE388.411D6E56@partitur.se>

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Palle Girgensohn (girgen@partitur.se) wrote:
> sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
> > 
> > > I've seen it happen twice in a weeks time on our server, that
> > > has always been rock stable before:
> > >
> > > fxp0: device timeout   (many many times, repeated in syslog)
> > >
> > > The machine does not answer to ping.
> > 
> > I see you're using the fxp driver in combination with the ncr driver.
> > Have you considered using the sym driver instead? That has cured a
> > number of stability problems for us.
> 
> Hi Steinar,
> 
> No, I haven't considered that. I will, when upgrading to
> fbsd-4. It seems that the sym driver is not available before
> release-4.0. :(

The sym driver is in 3.4-STABLE.

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