Stephen Marley a icrit :
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 09:59:00PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I'm a newwbie on OpenBSD and I've installed it on a IBM P100 Computer.
I have a "Intel 82557" NIC inside. This NIC can be seen as fxp0.
My problem is:
When I don't use the comuputer during about 5 minutes, my NIC "go to
sleep" and don't want to receive or send any frames.
But if I press a key on the keyboard or if I connect by SSH through
another NIC,fxp0 works again during about 5 minutes. It is a strange
behaviour.
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I had something similiar with an PC too (but I can't remember if it was
also IBM or DELL or whatever). Maybe it sounds crazy but deactivate
everything related with power-saving (if your BIOS provides that). The PC
I remeber had some problems because of the fucked up BIOS (like my
notebook with PCMICA...).
Agreed. Some IBM systems of that vintage had "power saving" modes which
went quite beyond the call of duty, turning way too much off way too
"hard". Your description sounds very much like this.
I have an old compaq that was doing the same. Yesterday, I disabled apm0
using 'config -e' and none of the nics has gone to sleep since (but then
again, maybe I'm just doing something else different). Worth a try
perhaps? (See config(8) on how to modify your kernel's properties
without recompiling).
Thank you....
My problem is now resolved.
It was the APM of my bios which was turning off my Network Card. I've
disabled it in the BIOS configuration tool , and my NIC works well now.
I didn't know the command "config -e", I will test it, and see if I have
the same result. I thinks, it's a good way for me to understand how the
system works (I'm new in OpenBSD).
Pascal S.
