Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:47:38 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Sander <jim@federation.addy.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_fxp driver info (which card then?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10101260930280.15369-100000@federation.addy.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101260844390.34314-100000@net-ninja.com>
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> > Linux people avoid the EtherExpress because they think something is > > wrong with the card. > Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B cards in FreeBSD These cards work well in our many 3.x and 4.x systems. But I just built up a Redhat 6.2 box with one, and all seemed to be working fine, but after a while I started having various problems starting net services. The box would boot, but often would "hang" indefinitely when "Starting eth0" - requiring a hard reboot. I swapped to another EE-Pro NIC, new MB, different RAM, other cables, everything, but no change. After I switched to a linksys NIC, voila- everything worked without a problem. (so far) Of course the Intel NICs still work perfectly when put into a spare BSD system. So it's *not* that the cards themselves are unreliable. Perhaps the drivers controlling them? Perhaps a weird MB/NIC conflict of some sort? -=Jim=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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