Yes there is and Mike Silberback from the FreeBSD team
has released a patch for their vr driver which does seem to fix things
(under FreeBSD) silby@freebsd.org


On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:31:33 +0200
Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> wrote:

> Since I've been hit by if_vr.c issues quite a lot (I think there is a PR still
> open that it stalls under heavy load, where heavy = normal NFS useage from
> a semi-fast client or two simultaneous ftp sessions at 100 MBit), I'd like
> to share my feelings about this chipset: it is crap - avoid it. It seems to
> have undocumented chipset bugs.
> 
> For what it's worth: Windows ME and Win2K both have (sometimes - not always
> but often) problems autonegotiating. I've seen the WinME driver stall under
> load about as often as ours does (additionally it's performance sucks, while
> ours is OK).
> 
> Also see various discussions (without real solutions) on linux mailing
> lists, they seem to have both problems too.
> 
> Martin
> 


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