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Date:      Wed, 16 Feb 2005 03:02:07 +0000
From:      Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>
To:        Mark Magiera <mark@hyow.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Any experience with "Asus A8N-SLi" or "Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI" mobos?
Message-ID:  <84dead720502151902778f893c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050215231416.449c8695.mark@hyow.eu.org>
References:  <20050208193338.6ee460d9.mark@hyow.eu.org> <20050215113649.7bfcb1cd.mark@hyow.eu.org> <20050215180011.GD38158@dragon.nuxi.com> <20050215231416.449c8695.mark@hyow.eu.org>

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> My main, if not only problem is the NIC being so unreliable.

You may want to upgrade to 5.3-STABLE.

I installed 5.3-RELEASE on an ASUS K8V (which has the same
NIC).  I kept the following loop running in the background

  while :; do
  sleep 20
  ifconfig sk0 down
  ifconfig sk0 up
  done

this kept the network driver usable while I downloaded
the -stable tree.

A make world later, the box was stable.

If you don't want to change your userland, you could probably
get by recompiling the kernel with an 5.3-STABLE version of
"if_sk.c".  I haven't tested this though.

-- 
FreeBSD Volunteer, http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy



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