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Date:      Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:35:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Chip Marshall <chip@jlc.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netgear FA310TX C6.1 problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810121335210.25080-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19981011175119.A20734@hindenburg.eboai.org>

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On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Chip Marshall wrote:

> Here at the ISP where I work we recently tried to install three
> FA310TX C6.1's into our routers, running FreeBSD 2.2.2.  The cards
> would probe correctly and showed no problems with configuring, but the
> console would display the error "de0: transmission timeout" every once
> and a while, and no network traffic would occur.  On the back of the
> cards the link light was lit, but none of the other, and the activity
> light never even blinked.
> 
> We have tried the cards in multiple machines now, with FreeBSD 2.2.7
> and FreeBSD 2.2.2, and it does the same thing.
> 
> Any ideas?

The de driver is finicky.  You may be ahing interrupt latency problems in
the machine too, but there isn'tanything you can do about that.

I assume the cards work.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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