Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 05:25:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> To: Dmitry Samersoff <dms@wplus.net> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: 3.2 and 3com Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909210522230.13245-100000@paprika.michvhf.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990921111253.dms@wplus.net>
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On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
>
> On 20-Sep-99 Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> >
> > I have an odd one going on. In the last couple of weeks we installed 3.2
> > (from the CDs) on 7 machines. 5 were new pIII-450's ASUS MB with 3C905
> > PCI network cards, two are older Pentium 150's with 3C509B's - ISA, all
> > with 128MB ram. All power management stuff is turned off in BIOS. These
> > machines, if left alone with no traffic, will seem to drop off the network.
> > No ping, no telnet, no ssh. If you walk up to the console you can log in
> > and ping anywhere you want and suddenly you can get in from outside again.
> > It's like it was woke up. It also wakes up if a cronjob sends mail. Right
> > now I have open pings running to a couple of the machines to keep them
> > awake. The only things these machines seem to have in common are: 10base-t,
> > FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE, 128MB Ram and a Cisco Catalyst 1900 switch.
> >
> > Anyone seen this before or have any ideas?
>
> Looks like IRQ problem ...
>
> Is all plug-play-cry possibility (BIOS and 3C5x9 setup) disabled and 3C5x9 IRQ
> marked as reserved for ISA in BIOS?
>
> Try to set IRQ to Free's 3C5x9 driver explicitly.
I did that on the 150s. We used the 3com setup disk on the card and
set the IRQ to (I think 3), then in BIOS we reserved 3 and shut off
COM2 since we weren't using it anyway. My desktop uses the same card
in the same config with 2.2.8.
Vince.
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