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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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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 07:38:30 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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FTP the boot floppy from ftp.freebsd.org and try again - this has been
fixed (as was widely announced - please subscribe to the announce
mailing list).

					Jordan

> 
> 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 minim
al
> 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.
> 
> 15 minutes before the install, I had 2.1.5-GAMMA on the same
> hardware (in the same configuration) with no problems (which
> makes me think its NOT the hardware), but I don't know what may
> have changed between -GAMMA and -RELEASE.
> 
> Please let me know if this is a known bug, or whether I am just
> losing my mind.
> 	-Brian
>