Subject: Re: ray0 in absolutely-current as of Jan 11?
To: None <neil@nc.com>
From: Christian E. Hopps <chopps@merit.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 02/13/2000 04:50:53
"Neil A. Carson" <neil@nc.com> writes:
> Dave Huang wrote:
> >
> > > So, I built a new kernel.
> > >
> > > BAM! ray0 gets 10-50 dup packets back per packet it should get.
> >
> > You're using cardbus, right? Have you tried setting mem8=1 in pccbb.c?
> > (see <http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2000/01/27/0013.html>)
> > That seems to do the trick for me...
>
> I wonder if this is the same symptom that I get? I find:
> - Sometimes I bring up the card and it works fine.
Please explain fine. What systems does it work fine between?
> - Sometimes I bring up the card, nothing happens,
> and I need to ifconfig it down and then back up
> again to make it work.
When I was developing the driver and was abusing it in random ways, I
saw this behavoir, basically the card would fail to aquire a network. I
do not believe that I have seen this since before I commited the
driver. It is possible with all the random isa config/cardbus
unhappyness going on that similar problems could be seen.
Chris.