From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 26 9:13:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 130A637B698 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:13:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from dbsys.etinc.com (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA78078; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:15:55 GMT (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010126122046.022922f0@mail.etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:22:46 -0500 To: Jim Sander From: Dennis Subject: Re: if_fxp driver info (which card then?) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:47 AM 01/26/2001, Jim Sander wrote: > > > 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. the eepro100 driver is badly broken in linux (havent you been paying attention?). it took me a few hours to fix it. They dont reset the card properly on an overrun, which causes it to lock up. Clearly the driver as is is unusable in a heavy use environment. DB > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message