From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 31 21:29:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA24239 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 21:29:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from schizo.cdsnet.net (schizo.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.32]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA24233 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 21:29:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mrcpu@localhost) by schizo.cdsnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA11757; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 21:30:14 -0800 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 21:30:13 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen To: "Justin T. Gibbs" cc: "Marc G. Fournier" , yves@CC.McGill.CA, Dave Richards , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 3c509 In-Reply-To: <199602010359.TAA19077@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I missed the first part of this, but if somebody can recap real quick. I'm running all 3com 3c509's (3c509B's I think), in all my boxes, and I'm not having any problems that I'm aware of related to hangs in the cards. Backups are down each night via NFS, which is about as much stress as they get. On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > >On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > > >> Serge's patches to the driver went into the tree on Sunday night. > >> The driver has other problems that cause it to hang the card now > >> that David has removed the cludge that caused it to timeout every > >> second and reset the card. Whose got docs for this card? > >> > > what causes the lockouts? just heavy network traffic? I'm > >running two of them right now, and haven't noticed any problems...yet > > What version of the driver are you running? I don't know when > david changed the watchdog timer for the driver, but 2.1-Stable > and -current should have the problem. I can't test it myself > since I don't have a network at home for the moment, but I do > own a 3C509. > > > > >Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting > >System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, > > Administrator | | Information and > > scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc > > > > -- > Justin T. Gibbs > =========================================== > FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations > =========================================== >