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From: miff@apanix.apana.org.au (Michael Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: [Free 2.0] _Bizarre_ ethernet/X problem...
Date: 9 Mar 1995 06:59:06 GMT
Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines)
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This is one that will delight and amaze, and really I don't expect any
useful answers to it, other than 'your motherboard is fried' 8)

Since day 1 with FreeBSD 2.0-RELEASE, I've received ed0: device timeout
messages (3C503 8bit): regardless of this, the network worked OK.

I spend 99% of my time working under X.

A while ago, I added another machine to buffer my 'net connection, handle
my mail, and to be around when I decide to play something depraved on the
fun machine.  I NFS mount large slices of the large system for convenience
sake.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, at one point in time I was using a text
console on the server, and noticed that the network was not.  I swapped
back to X, and it started working.  Swapped back to the text console, and
it stopped again.  This is 100% reproducible, and very very weird 8)

For those of you who love to make notes, Xfreee 3.1, CLGD5428.

Any luck, and it'll be fixed in 2.1 8)


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# mike smith : miff@apanix.apana.org.au - Silicon grease monkey        #
# "The question 'why are the fundamental laws of nature mathematical'  #
# then invites the trivial response 'because we define as fundamental  #
# those laws which are mathematical'". Paul Davies, _The_Mind_of_God_. #