From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 13 15:43:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EFB637B402 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:43:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0084.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.84] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16b93U-0003Y2-00; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:43:16 -0800 Message-ID: <3C6AFA0B.44733465@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:43:07 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Miguel Mendez Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with a carbus Realtek 8139 card References: <20020213131817.A59929@energyhq.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Miguel Mendez wrote: > And compiled a kernel modifying the NEWCARD template. Everything works > fine , except from time to time the network stops working. If I do a > ifconfig rl0 down and then ifconfig rl0 up it starts working again. Any > idea why is this happening? If I use the 16bit pcmcia nic this doesn't > happen, and it also didn't happen when this computer was running NetBSD > 1.5.2 You are using a realtek interface. They are known to be not very good. You can work around it by setting a timer, and handling the transmit and receive interrupts as people have been discussing for the ep driver (I have several of these, and they appear to work for me, if I do that). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message