From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jun 10 09:20:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA22489 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 09:20:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gallup.cia-g.com (root@gallup.cia-g.com [206.206.162.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA22350; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 09:20:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gallup.cia-g.com (gallup.cia-g.com [206.206.162.10]) by gallup.cia-g.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA10682; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 10:21:50 -0600 Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 10:21:49 -0600 (MDT) From: Stephen Fisher To: Gordon Henderson cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and 3com590/595 cards. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I haven't had many problems with the vx0 driver except yesterday it got weird system errors then it rebooted! Never seen that kind of error before. So I was trying 3c509's - This driver is said to be buggy too. [It only detects it half the time when booting.] I really would like to use 3com cards.. anyone have workarounds? Any way I can help? I use 2.1R. On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Gordon Henderson wrote: > > I recently built a new server with FreeBSD 2.2-960501-SNAP to make use of > the 3com590 cards that we wished to use. > > The driver support for them is very flakey. I can repeatedly cause the > system to stop all traffic flowing over the ethernet card, requiring an > ifconfig vx0 down ; sleep 1 ; ifconfig vx0 up > to restore connectivity. > > Is anyone working on a better driver? especially one that uses all > features of the hardware (and not just polling) as we also have a > requirement to use 3c595's as soon as possible to make use of their > 100Mb/sec transfers. > - Steve - Systems Manager - Community Internet Access - http://www.cia-g.com