Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:13:39 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any experience with "Asus A8N-SLi" or "Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI" mobos? Message-ID: <20050216061339.GE2900@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <84dead720502151902778f893c@mail.gmail.com> References: <20050208193338.6ee460d9.mark@hyow.eu.org> <20050215113649.7bfcb1cd.mark@hyow.eu.org> <20050215180011.GD38158@dragon.nuxi.com> <20050215231416.449c8695.mark@hyow.eu.org> <84dead720502151902778f893c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 03:02:07AM +0000, Joseph Koshy wrote: > > My main, if not only problem is the NIC being so unreliable. > You may want to upgrade to 5.3-STABLE. > I installed 5.3-RELEASE on an ASUS K8V (which has the same > NIC). I kept the following loop running in the background > > while :; do > sleep 20 > ifconfig sk0 down > ifconfig sk0 up > done > > this kept the network driver usable while I downloaded > the -stable tree. Great advice. Thanks! -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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