From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 3 2:44:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7111837B401 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 02:44:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brabys.co.za (postoffice.brabys.co.za [192.96.48.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A36D43E6A for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 02:44:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nelis@brabys.co.za) Received: from nelis.brabys.co.za (proxy-inner.brabys.co.za [192.96.48.11]) by brabys.co.za (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g939hUPt017163 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:43:30 +0200 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20021003112202.01325a18@192.96.48.11> X-Sender: nelis@192.96.48.11 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 11:43:36 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Nelis Lamprecht Subject: RealTek 8129/8139 nic problems Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, I have a Accton 100baseTX nic that uses the RealTek 8129/8139 chipset. The nic works fine if I plug it into a 10mbit hub but as soon as I plug it into a switch ( 3Com Baseline 10/100 ) which I use internally for ftp'ing it starts transferring data ok and then slowly dies. After awhile it will not permit me at all to connect and I have to manually bring down the interface using ifconfig and then bring it back up before I can reconnect. I have configured my kernel with the correct drivers ( device rl ). I have 2 identical nic's in the same machine and they both give the same problem and I have tried several ftp clients. I'm using 4.6 Stable. Has anyone experienced similar problems with these nic's ? Any help, suggestions would be appreciated. Kind regards, Nelis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message