From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 17 00:50:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D029E16A4D8 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 00:50:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.kukulies.org (www.kukulies.org [213.146.112.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2A4043D41 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 00:50:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kuku@www.kukulies.org) Received: from www.kukulies.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.kukulies.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2H8ocX8005697 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:50:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kuku@www.kukulies.org) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by www.kukulies.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i2H8ocL3005696 for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:50:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kuku) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:50:38 +0100 (CET) From: "C. Kukulies" Message-Id: <200403170850.i2H8ocL3005696@www.kukulies.org> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: fxp0 - Dell 8000 intermittent outage X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 08:50:43 -0000 I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 (FreeBSD 5.2-current of last year somewhere) hooked up to a ZyXEL switch (ES-108) and the activity LEDs (yellow/carrier, green/signal) stop lighting/flashing intermittently (the uplink goes to a 3COM 3300 switch). During this it happened that dhclient dumped core. Any ideas? Could it be a 10/100 Mb negotiation problem? Do I have a dying network adapter? -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_physik.rwth-aachen.de