From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 15 21:11:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from campbell.cwx.net (Campbell.cwx.net [216.17.176.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1BFC37B42C for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 21:11:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from verinet.com (pragma. [192.168.1.2]) by campbell.cwx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA48817; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 22:11:51 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from allenc@verinet.com) Message-ID: <39C2F307.590C1C2B@verinet.com> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 22:11:51 -0600 From: Allen Campbell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: David Bushong , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: anyone have a working Netgear FA310TX right now? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Avalos wrote: > > > Is anyone's dc0 based netgear card working with latest -stable? > > I haven't had a problem on any of the -stable's. My latest is: > FreeBSD lithium.theshell.com 4.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE #0: Sun Sep 10 > 17:16:56 PDT 2000 > > > Sep 15 02:57:14 firebat /kernel: dc0: watchdog timeout > > Sep 15 02:57:14 firebat /kernel: dc0: failed to force tx and rx > > to idle state > > > > I don't know what those errors mean, but is your network cable good? Don't discount the possibility that the card is just hosed. I've had a run of 4 bad FA310TX's in the past 6 odd months. The reliability of these cards, in my experience, approaches that of forecasting weather. -- Allen Campbell | Lurking at the bottom of the allenc@verinet.com | gravity well, getting old. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message