Miguel Mendez wrote: > And compiled a kernel modifying the NEWCARD template. Everything works > fine , except from time to time the network stops working. If I do a > ifconfig rl0 down and then ifconfig rl0 up it starts working again. Any > idea why is this happening? If I use the 16bit pcmcia nic this doesn't > happen, and it also didn't happen when this computer was running NetBSD > 1.5.2
You are using a realtek interface. They are known to be not very good. You can work around it by setting a timer, and handling the transmit and receive interrupts as people have been discussing for the ep driver (I have several of these, and they appear to work for me, if I do that). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message