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Date:      Sun, 17 Sep 2000 01:22:42 -0700
From:      David Bushong <david@bushong.net>
To:        Allen Campbell <allenc@verinet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: anyone have a working Netgear FA310TX right now?
Message-ID:  <20000917012242.C402@bushong.net>
In-Reply-To: <39C2F307.590C1C2B@verinet.com>; from allenc@verinet.com on Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 10:11:51PM -0600
References:  <AAEMIFFLKPKLAOJHJANHGEEJCFAA.pavalos@theshell.com> <39C2F307.590C1C2B@verinet.com>

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On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 10:11:51PM -0600, Allen Campbell wrote:
> Peter Avalos wrote:
> > 
> > > Is anyone's dc0 based netgear card working with latest -stable?
> > 
> > I haven't had a problem on any of the -stable's. My latest is:
> > FreeBSD lithium.theshell.com 4.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE #0: Sun Sep 10
> > 17:16:56 PDT 2000
> > 
> > > Sep 15 02:57:14 firebat /kernel: dc0: watchdog timeout
> > > Sep 15 02:57:14 firebat /kernel: dc0: failed to force tx and rx
> > > to idle state
> > >
> > 
> > I don't know what those errors mean, but is your network cable good?
> 
> Don't discount the possibility that the card is just hosed.  I've had a
> run of 4 bad FA310TX's in the past 6 odd months.  The reliability of
> these cards, in my experience, approaches that of forecasting weather.
> 
Actually <cue sheepish expression> it turns out I had the card in a PCI slot
which was sharing an irq (10) with the fxp0 in the slot next to it.  Sigh.
Silly PC hardware.  Moving it to a free slot fixed the problem.

--David Bushong


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