Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:08:28 +0100 (CET) From: BOUWSMA Beery <freebsd-user@dcf77-zeit.netscum.dyndns.dk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird wedge with ep0 ethernet and dhclient Message-ID: <200202061908.g16J8SO00711@beerswilling.netscum.dyndns.dk>
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Howdy! I wrote on %.3s, %lld Sep 1993 > > I've been semi-consistently having my machine freeze up in a weird > > way when attempting to run /sbin/dhclient when the Cabal Modem is > > connected to an ep0 3Com 3C509 card. > [...] > up with anything more useful and concrete. And I'll also see how a > Different OS handles this card with the ISC dhclient. more l8r d00dz This will probably be the last I say about this stupid card. However: It seems that I can't get into the debugger when the machine freezes at multi-user startup no matter what I do. It also seems that even when FreeBSD wedges, I can boot into NetBSD, which somehow appears to initialize the card so that it can run the dhclient program without problems. After that, I can usually reboot into FreeBSD and it Just Works. Usually, but not always. Usually after I've used the card successfully with FreeBSD, I can power-down the machine and later boot without problems. Except once when the power cord proper was disconnected for some time. Both FreeBSD-stable and FreeBSD-current suffer this problem at boot. I think I couldn't get dhclient to work after boot with -current, but I could be remembering wrong. I dunno if it's Useful Information that NetBSD boots and runs dhclient with the 3C509 card immediately after FreeBSD wedges and that following that, FreeBSD works, for a while, usually. Unfortunately, since normally syslogd starts after dhclient, none of the info messages get logged, and it's not immediately obvious where it freezes, *if* I wanted to put more work into this rather than just tossing the 3C509 out the window and using a different card. That's enough about that. barry bouwsma To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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