David Terrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since upgrading to 3.9 I've been having a problem with flakiness from > my older PCI quad ethernet card. de3 here is a dhcp interface (crappy > SBC DSL), de2 and de1 are internal (wired and wireless). > > the symptoms of failure are that de3 will stop sending packets. > tcpdump doesn't show outgoing transmissions, dhclient complains > "out of buffer space", and even without any active transmissions > ifconfig shows OACTIVE in the interface flags. > > (the machine is up at the moment so I don't have that ifconfig handy, > sorry). > > One other thing I notice is that when I do ask it to do autonegotiate > it floods the network with requests, but a hardcode to 100baseTX doesn't > work (I don't exactly have a managed switch on the other end) and > 10baseT complains that there is no carrier in ifconfig status and > dhclient won't run. > > Any ideas? Simply bad hardware? This was working fine with 3.8 and > even a 3.9 snapshot from two months ago before the CDs arrived monday > and I did the upgrade.
Give the dc(4) driver a shot instead.
