Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 07:31:35 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@root.com> To: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com> Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3C5X9 code... Message-ID: <199607171431.HAA10207@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Jul 1996 10:22:57 EDT." <199607171422.KAA05721@spoon.beta.com>
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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
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