Return to BSD News archive
Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:16952 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:3040 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!wraith.internode.com.au!tipellium.apanix.apana.org.au!usenet 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) Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3jm8vq$28k@tipellium.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au 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) -- # 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_. #