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To: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com>
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Subject: Re: 3C5X9 code... 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 17 Jul 1996 10:22:57 EDT."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 07:31:35 -0700
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>
>I recently tried to install 2.1.5-RELEASE on my pentium system
>with some serious problems. After several seconds of network usage,
>the 3COM 3C5X9 card in my machine drops off the network. This happens
>both during the install (from the boot floppy) and with the
>GENERIC kernel. I was able to get 2.1.5-RELEASE installed by choosing a minimal
>configuration, and then toggling the interface status using ifconfig
>every few seconds (ie - ifconfig ep0 down;sleep 1;ifconfig ep0 up;sleep3 - 
>repeat as needed). Once loaded, the problem persisted, and began to
>cause panics after a period of time during NFS copies, and other
>high-load situations. The problem does not seem to "go away" under
>low load situations, and appears to happen in 3 (high load) to 15 (low load)
>second intervals.

   You should read the announcements...we withdrew the 2.1.5 release because
of this and a few other problems. These have been fixed and the code that is
available now shouldn't have this problem.

>Please let me know if this is a known bug, or whether I am just
>losing my mind.

   No, you're probably not losing your mind...but I think I am. :-)

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project