Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 22:25:11 -0700 From: Frank Yang <fyang@leland.Stanford.EDU> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Intel EtherExpress 16 driver instability? Message-ID: <33643473.636F@leland.stanford.edu>
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Hi, Before I upgraded my computer from 486 to Pentium MMX, my EtherExpress 16 network card worked fine with FreeBSD. On the Pentium machine, I kept getting unpredictable timeouts on remote connections. After awhile (when there are too many timeouts...I think), the connection would be terminated and the card would function no longer. If I tried to ping a remote machine after I lost a connection, I would get a message saying no (send) buffers available. I could re-establish the network if I do ifconfig "down" and then "up". Is this a knwon problem because the release notes mentioned that the network card is not recommended due to driver instability? Is there anything I could do to fix the problem? P.S. The last version I had on my 486 was 2.2.1-GAMMA. But I'm using 2.2.1-RELEASE version on my Pentium machine. Thanks, Frank Yang
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