From owner-freebsd-net Tue Sep 21 2:25:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from paprika.michvhf.com (paprika.michvhf.com [209.57.60.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA36914C85 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 02:25:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vev@michvhf.com) Received: (qmail 13261 invoked by uid 1001); 21 Sep 1999 09:25:35 -0000 Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 05:25:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Vince Vielhaber To: Dmitry Samersoff Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: 3.2 and 3com In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- ========================================================================== Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com flame-mail: /dev/null # include TEAM-OS2 Online Campground Directory http://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstore http://www.cloudninegifts.com ========================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message