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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!info.curtin.edu.au!cproto
From: cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au (Computer Protocol)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: NE1000 driver locks up NetBSD-0.9
Date: 11 Sep 93 18:08:17 GMT
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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Message-ID: <cproto.747770897@marsh>
NNTP-Posting-Host: marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au
Summary: NE1000 driver locks up NetBSD-0.9

PANIC, PANIC, PANIC.

My NE1000 card seems to work fine under NetBSD-0.9. Ping, FTP, TELNET
and even NFS mounts work fine ---- until I start to transfer serious
amounts of data. It transfers about 2 Mbytes without a major problem
and then locks up at the originating side. I have to reboot to fix the
problem (the console doesn't even echo anything anymore). I got a few
"isr 15" messages but they not seem to impact on anything while its
working.

I did read the FAQ and reconfigured (as suggested) the IRQ 2 to
IRQ 5 but then I couldn't even successfully ping the other side.
So I'm back to IRQ 2 and do panic.

I really need to get this going. Please help.

I also tried to slow down the sender (which is the one who locks up) by
doing something like the following:

    rsh 192.8.200.1 "(cd abc;tar -xf -|dd -bs=4)" | tar xvf -

with the same result. NFS mounts and FTP also lock up the same way.

Regards - Tibor Sashegyi (cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au)