Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 10:41:49 +0200 From: Andy Sporner <sporner@nentec.de> To: Nigel Roberts <nigel@tsnz.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possible problem with rl (Realtek) ethernet card driver in 4.5-STABLE Message-ID: <3CEB59CD.7030708@nentec.de> References: <20020522023118.GD31847@katie.paradise.net.nz>
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> > > >Does this look like a driver bug, a hardware fault or all of the >above? I realise the realtek chips are not the best, but they >shouldn't cause a box to fall over :) > >Here are the details from the core dumps I got, which led me to > Hi, I had (in the words of Andrew Lloyd Webber) some "Strange Things Mystifying" when I was writting a device driver that were very similar. Later I upgraded to version 5.0 PREVIEW and the same code performed flawlessly. I have some deep seated suspicians that the VIA chipset had some problems in the 4.X releases. You might try a newer release (if not 4.5). Cheers Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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