Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 11:47:52 +1300 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brooks Davis <brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu>, Joshua Breindel <JDB@dolby.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Very quick question... Message-ID: <19991017114752.20704@mojave.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19991015113032.B19760@orion.ac.hmc.edu>; from Brooks Davis on Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 11:30:32AM -0700 References: <0FAAFBF846ABD211A19100805FA6A55AAD3979@gold.dolby.com> <19991015113032.B19760@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
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On Friday, 15 October 1999 at 11:30:32 -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 10:57:52AM -0700, Breindel, Joshua wrote: >> The FreeBSD Handbook refers to the kernel support for the 3Com 3C509 (ep0) >> as being "buggy". Is this something I should worry about (this is the >> network card that I have)? > > Maybe. Lots of people have reported good performance and no problems > while others have had no end of trouble. If it works for you then just > ignore the note. If it doesn't, then get a new nic. I've been meaning to remove this reference for some time, and maybe I should. But just a week or so ago I had the driver hang on two different machines. If this happens to you, do this: # ifconfig ep0 down # ifconfig ep0 up That has always unwedged things for me. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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