Subject: Re: 3c590 and NetBSD 1.2?
To: Curt Sampson <curt@portal.ca>
From: Andrew Y Ng <ayn@andrew.cmu.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/05/1996 16:35:15
yeah, I tried the Raadt patch, it sorta worked at first, but it became 
WORSE  :(

This problem is really bothering me, my server falls off the net every 15 minutes.

/ayn

On Sat, 5 Oct 1996, Curt Sampson wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Oct 1996, Andrew Y Ng wrote:
> 
> > I'm just wondering if my 3c590-freezing when large number of packets r being
> > sent problem would be fix in the new 1.2 release.
> 
> Ah ha! So the problem isn't just with the 3c900 cards. I've got a
> 3c905 running under NetBSD 1.2 (or pretty darn close--it's the same
> driver, at any rate) and it does the same thing. Theo de Raadt had
> some patches for me to try, but they didn't work. I've got piles
> of stuff to work on, but I'll try to have a quick look at this this
> week-end. Theo and I both have technical documentation on the cards
> coming whenever 3com gets around to mailing it to us.
> 
> I'll keep your name handy as someone who'd be interested in testing
> patches if I make any progress.
> 
> cjs
> 
> Curt Sampson    curt@portal.ca		Info at http://www.portal.ca/
> Internet Portal Services, Inc.	
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> 
> 

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