From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 15 10:59:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA13285 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 10:59:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from csla.csl.sri.com (csla.csl.sri.com [192.12.33.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA13278 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 10:58:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from japonica.csl.sri.com (japonica.csl.sri.com [130.107.15.17]) by csla.csl.sri.com (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA27830 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 10:54:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from japonica.csl.sri.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by japonica.csl.sri.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA19774 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 10:57:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199709151757.KAA19774@japonica.csl.sri.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: SMC Tulip card problems Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 10:57:33 -0700 From: Fred Gilham Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Someone asked if the new DE driver (I assume in the latest 3.0 snaps) works. I'm having trouble with it. I'm using a later-model SMC tulip-based card on my home machine and it doesn't work very well. What happens is that after booting it works at first. But then once you do a significant amount of networking the interface seems to freeze. If I'm using a TCP protocol, such as ftp, doing an ifconfig de0 -down ; ifconfig de0 -up will bring it back for a while. (If I want to do lengthy FTPs I can do while ( 1 ) ifconfig de0 -down ; ifconfig de0 -up sleep 1 end in another console and things will look like normal. But UDP seems to go south on me. I NFS mount a partition from another machine and once the interface freezes, NFS never seems to recover. Going back to the 3.0-970507 snap works. I have that one on CD-ROM. I know that later snaps work (I think everything in July was OK) but nothing including and after the 3.0-970812 snap works. I don't have anything earlier than that around and they were taken off releng22.freebsd.org. -Fred Gilham gilham@csl.sri.com