From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 16 13:15:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA15704 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 13:15:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA15670 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 13:14:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA21287; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 13:17:45 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199711162117.NAA21287@implode.root.com> To: "Stephen J. Roznowski" cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Diagnosing Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 16 Nov 1997 14:16:37 EST." <199711161916.OAA13572@istari.home.net> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 13:17:44 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I'm been having a reoccuring problem with an Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ >Ethernet card. When I reboot into FreeBSD from Windows 95, occasionally >the card won't come back in a working state. Rebooting multiple times >will cause the card to eventually work. [This is on an 18 October kernel, >but has occurred on earlier kernels as well.] > >Each time, the card seems to be recognized correctly during the probe, >but when I try to (for example) ping a remote address, I get a "no route >to host" message [not sure of exact wording]. If I configure the interface >down, then back up, I get a "could not allocate llinfo" error. > >My question is, how can I go about diagnosing (and fixing :-) this problem? Do you have the ISA version or the PCI version (which driver does it use)? -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project