From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 17 07:23:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA09001 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 07:23:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spoon.beta.com (root@[199.165.180.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA08991; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 07:23:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spoon.beta.com (mcgovern@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spoon.beta.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA05721; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 10:22:57 -0400 Message-Id: <199607171422.KAA05721@spoon.beta.com> To: bugs@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3C5X9 code... Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 10:22:57 -0400 From: "Brian J. McGovern" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I recently tried to install 2.1.5-RELEASE on my pentium system with some serious problems. After several seconds of network usage, the 3COM 3C5X9 card in my machine drops off the network. This happens both during the install (from the boot floppy) and with the GENERIC kernel. I was able to get 2.1.5-RELEASE installed by choosing a minimal configuration, and then toggling the interface status using ifconfig every few seconds (ie - ifconfig ep0 down;sleep 1;ifconfig ep0 up;sleep3 - repeat as needed). Once loaded, the problem persisted, and began to cause panics after a period of time during NFS copies, and other high-load situations. The problem does not seem to "go away" under low load situations, and appears to happen in 3 (high load) to 15 (low load) second intervals. 15 minutes before the install, I had 2.1.5-GAMMA on the same hardware (in the same configuration) with no problems (which makes me think its NOT the hardware), but I don't know what may have changed between -GAMMA and -RELEASE. Please let me know if this is a known bug, or whether I am just losing my mind. -Brian