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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!wa.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.webspan.net!usenet From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@webspan.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Possible bug in de driver? Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 09:00:53 -0400 Organization: WebSpan Inc Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3243E705.41C67EA6@webspan.net> References: <nzzssJc@quack.kfu.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mutara.noc.webspan.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-STABLE i386) Nick Sayer wrote: > > If I pull the 10baseT cable out of my SMC 21040 based Ethernet card > for a little bit, the card will generate transmit timeouts and > pretty much lock up. Entering promiscuous mode briefly after the > link is restored cures the problem. The system is running > 2.2-960801-SNAP and is a P120-Triton. Well, perhaps the real answer > is "don't do that, then", but stull, it would be better if the > machine could figure it out on its own. The driver in 2.2 until a day or two ago (and definately in 960801-SNAP is known to have problems. Try grabbing the sources from the latest -current stuff and try those. Gary