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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:12:01 +0000
From: Baldur Gislason <baldur@foo.is>
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Subject: Weird behavior with FreeBSD 5.4-REL on a Dell Inspiron 10000
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I tried FreeBSD on a Dell Inspiron 1000 laptop. Every time I tried to use the onboard network device, sis0 the machine locked up.
It is fine until I configure the interface up and plug the network cable into it.
Also, when I boot without ACPI it locks up in the booting process.
I have also tried NetBSD, no problems there but when I configure the interface up it does pop a message into dmesg:
sip0: transmit FIFO underrun; increasing Tx drain threshold to 1536 bytes

Any input?

Baldur Gislason