From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 3 02:40:08 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA09356 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 02:40:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from k6n1.znh.org ([207.109.235.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA09280 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 02:39:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zach@uffdaonline.net) Received: (from zach@localhost) by k6n1.znh.org (8.9.2/8.9.1) id KAA07331; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 10:40:45 GMT (envelope-from zach) Message-ID: <19990203044045.A7108@znh.org> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 04:40:45 -0600 From: Zach Heilig To: Chia-liang Kao , wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with vr0 References: <199902021920.OAA05271@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> <199902030442.MAA01559@genius.cirx.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199902030442.MAA01559@genius.cirx.org>; from Chia-liang Kao on Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 12:42:01PM +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 12:42:01PM +0800, Chia-liang Kao wrote: > I did a `ping 192.168.100.1', and there is no response and no messages > at all. I think the most interesting part of this is that I can see > both of the lights on the hub blinking when I ping 192.168.100.1; > while only the light of the other side blinks when he pings me. ... I use this driver as well, and have had conversations with Bill Paul before on this. It is now working well enough for my needs (but not anywhere resembling perfect -- transfers either direction have to be initiated from a different host). Maybe your machine and my machine that flakes out are similar: [excerpts from dmesg] CPU: AMD Am5x86 Write-Back (486-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x4f4 Stepping=4 Features=0x1 real memory = 67108864 (65536K bytes) chip0: rev 0x31 on pci0.5.0 vr0: rev 0x06 int a irq 9 on pci0.13.0 vr0: Ethernet address: 00:a0:0c:c0:03:c1 vr0: autoneg complete, link status good (half-duplex, 10Mbps) The best conclusion I could come up with is that particular PCI chipset is flakey [maybe the entire chipset]. Only one pci card I have tried in that system has worked properly, and that was a display adapter -- this is out of about 6 different PCI cards of various types. -- Zach Heilig / Zach Heilig "Americans are sensitive about their money, and since this was the first major change in the greenback in nearly 70 years, a radical redesign might have been too much for consumers to comprehend" -- John Iddings [COINage, Feb. 1999]. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message