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Date:      Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:25:05 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        dg@root.com
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fxp0 hangs on a PC164 using STABLE 
Message-ID:  <200007142125.OAA05782@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Jul 2000 10:07:36 PDT." <200007141707.KAA16976@implode.root.com> 

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> >fxp is not supported on the Alpha, and known to be unreliable there.  
> >Contact the maintainer or use a different card.  FWIW, this actually 
> >sounds like an issue that's been seen on x86 as well.
> 
>    It does? I've never heard of a bug report like this for x86 and in fact I'm
> not aware of any bugs in the driver for x86.

It's been described many times, actually.  It sounds a lot like a bad 
interaction between either the card or the driver and the hub/switch at 
the other end, however it's shown up on a reasonably regular basis.



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