From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat May 2 07:35:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA00472 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Sat, 2 May 1998 07:35:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bastuba.partitur.se (bastuba.partitur.se [193.219.246.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA00453; Sat, 2 May 1998 07:35:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from girgen@partitur.se) Received: from partitur.se (t2o62p9.telia.com [195.198.198.69]) by bastuba.partitur.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA03313; Sat, 2 May 1998 16:35:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from girgen@partitur.se) Message-ID: <354B2F04.52BB7E8F@partitur.se> Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 16:34:44 +0200 From: Palle Girgensohn Organization: Partitur X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" CC: John Ioannidis , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.6 support for the 3COM 3C905 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I know several people (including myself) who have had problems with this card on FreeBSD. In 100 Mbit mode (which has to be set manually with a DOS utility) they gave me very bad performance against other 100 mpbs machines, and caused machines which relied on nfs mounts for /usr/local to actually crash! The nfs server had the 3com card, the clients had different cards, and I ended up having to run the clients in 10 Mbit/s through a 10/100 multiport hub, before I realized that it was the server nic that was spooky. I did a netstat -i 20 when uploading a large file to this server, and got read errors. For now I stay from this card... :( Looking forward to a revised driver... :) /Palle > On Fri, 1 May 1998, John Ioannidis wrote: > > > According to the FreeBSD handbook, the 3COM 3C905 10/100 Mbit ethernet > > cards are supported (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook10.html). > > > > Yet, I just installed 2.2.6 out of the cdrom.com cd-roms, and my 905 > > was not recognized. The driver is supposed to be the vx driver, and I > > verified that it's in my kernel. What gives? > > There is a new version of the 3C905, with a different device ID. > I gave someone a patch to test whether the existing driver would work for > this card, and the preliminary answer was "No". However, the issue is > obviously not closed. > > Please boot with -v option, and then > > /sbin/dmesg | mail -s 'dmesg output with new vx card' danny@freebsd.org > > and I'll look at it over the weekend. > > regards, > > Danny > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message