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#! rnews 1733 bsd 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!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!165.113.1.76!nntp3.crl.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress 16 network unstable Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 22:29:49 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 21 Message-ID: <336435CD.794BDF32@FreeBSD.org> References: <3362EA75.3AAC@leland.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: fyang@leland.stanford.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39888 Frank Yang wrote: > 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 That's actually the standard behavior for that particular driver - I'm amazed it worked trouble-free at all in the 486. :-) Fortunately, this driver was recently killed when ix support was merged into another driver (the ie driver) and the resulting combo driver apparently works much much better. It's in the latest 2.2-RELENG release over at ftp://releng22.freebsd.org and also on ftp.freebsd.org in the 2.2 RELENG snapshot I copied over recently (the driver change went into the 2.2 branch on April 14th). -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.