Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 11:54:14 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "Pascal Hofstee" <daeron@Wit401305.student.utwente.nl>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Macronix driver bugs ? Message-ID: <000e01bec8aa$1b938200$021d85d1@youwant.to> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907072042110.1367-100000@shadowmere.student.utwente.nl>
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I've had a lot of problems with MX98713 cards and FreeBSD-stable. None were as bad as what you report. But I finally decided to either run the cards at 10Mbps (which seems to work fine for me) or replace the cards with others and put the 98713 cards in the NT machines. For what it's worth, I've had very similar problems with 98713 cards under Linux too -- about 6 months before I had them with FreeBSD. And one Windows 98 machine caused my hub's collision rate to go through the roof with a 98713 card. The most common problem I have is incredibly lousy network performance. The second most common problem is the transmitter simply 'stopping', recovering only if I do an 'ifconfig down' folloed by an 'ifconfig up'. One odd sympton is that if you log into the machine and ping to any other machine on the LAN, after about 8 packets, you'll start seeing duplicates of old packets. It seems that, among other things, it's receiving some packets twice. The 98713 is just bad, in my experience. Throw them out and buy new ones (or give them to your 'friends'). The money you spend will be made up for by the time you save. DS > Hi, > > I today tried to upgrade my SMC-8216 Elita Ultra ethernet card to a nice > Macronix 98713 card a friend of mine had lying around. > > It's a FreeBSD-3.2-STABLE system cvsupped and buildworld today (July 7th) > > I checked the LINT file for support and found the following: > device mx0 > > After rebuilding my kernel and ensuring etc/rc.conf contained the proper > settings for the network card ... (changing all the ed0 references to mx0) > I found that my system would always lock up somewhere during the > boot-phase or when it even passed that it would lock up during starting > xdm. > > I had it lock up my system completely during PCI-probing once (before > detecting vga0), during network configuration ... hostname, ifconfig or > starting of network services like samba e.g. > > -------------------- > Pascal Hofstee - daeron@shadowmere.student.utwente.nl > > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version: 3.1 > GCS d- s+: a-- C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W- N+ o? K- w--- O? M V? PS+ > PE Y-- PGP-- > t+ 5 X-- R tv+ b+ DI D- G e* h+ r- y+ > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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