Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 07:38:30 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com> Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3C5X9 code... Message-ID: <381.837614310@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Jul 1996 10:22:57 EDT." <199607171422.KAA05721@spoon.beta.com>
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FTP the boot floppy from ftp.freebsd.org and try again - this has been fixed (as was widely announced - please subscribe to the announce mailing list). Jordan > > I recently tried to install 2.1.5-RELEASE on my pentium system > with some serious problems. After several seconds of network usage, > the 3COM 3C5X9 card in my machine drops off the network. This happens > both during the install (from the boot floppy) and with the > GENERIC kernel. I was able to get 2.1.5-RELEASE installed by choosing a minim al > configuration, and then toggling the interface status using ifconfig > every few seconds (ie - ifconfig ep0 down;sleep 1;ifconfig ep0 up;sleep3 - > repeat as needed). Once loaded, the problem persisted, and began to > cause panics after a period of time during NFS copies, and other > high-load situations. The problem does not seem to "go away" under > low load situations, and appears to happen in 3 (high load) to 15 (low load) > second intervals. > > 15 minutes before the install, I had 2.1.5-GAMMA on the same > hardware (in the same configuration) with no problems (which > makes me think its NOT the hardware), but I don't know what may > have changed between -GAMMA and -RELEASE. > > Please let me know if this is a known bug, or whether I am just > losing my mind. > -Brian >
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