Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:47:09 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Ben Lovett <blovett@bsdguru.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.3 on Inspiron 8000 Message-ID: <XFMail.20010622114709.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20010621102818.A11450@bsdguru.com>
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On 21-Jun-2001 Ben Lovett wrote: > Hrm... Are you using the miibus if'ied fxp driver? I am not, due to > some of the problems that arose when it was committed.. I would be > willing to try again when I next upgrade my system, but as it is working > perfectly right now, I do not wish to break anything ;) You might try > the non-miibus driver, although, I do not see how adding miibus calls > to the code could cause the system to hang, but then again, I am not a > programmer, nor do I have any understanding of what the new driver does. I am using the non MII fxp code. I am running 4.3-RC can't remember when exactly I updated (Apr 15?) > > think) - never to return either. > I have not had a chance to try anything USB, but I'll try it when I do > ;-) Ahh.. I have plenty :) > > The weird thing is that now I get SCB timeouts but the fxp can still ping.. > > weeeird :) > That is kinda weird.. Is that from another machine, or the laptop? From the laptop.. ie pinging a machine over ethernet from the laptop. > > No panic, just hangs solid - I don't know if it is possible to get a > > further > > diagnostic, but if anyone has a suggestion I am quite willing to try :) > > > I'll take your word on that.. I'm actually just using my trusty 3com 56k > pccard, but I did install the lucent shims and they do work perfectly. Hmm... well they do work for me (I have dialled up etc) but I noticed that the system would hang when redialling somewhere occassionally (damn dodgy phone lines). The ATH1 stuff was just an experiment. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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