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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.Stanford.EDU!nntp.Stanford.EDU!not-for-mail From: Frank Yang <fyang@leland.stanford.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Intel EtherExpress 16 network unstable Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 22:56:05 -0700 Organization: Stanford University Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3362EA75.3AAC@leland.stanford.edu> Reply-To: fyang@leland.stanford.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: teapot.stanford.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39822 Hi, I recently upgraded my computer from 486 to Pentium. The Intel EtherExpress 16 network card used to work fine on the 486/FreeBSD machine. However, the networking became very unstable with the Pentium+FreeBSD configuration. I can telnet, etc. but I kept getting unpredicable device timeout messages. When there are too many timeouts, the card will stop functioning, and when I try to ping an address, I get error messages like "sendto: no more buffer"... The only way I can get the card working again (without shutting down the computer) is to bring the device down and then up with "ifconfig" program. Does anyone else have simular problem? Any one know how to fix it? Thanks! Frank Yang