On 2/20/06, Chris Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After about 9 months of messing around with two servers with em(4) gigabit > cards and having continual problems with them randomly stopping working, > particularly under reasonably heavy load, I think I have finally come to > the conclusion that they don't work very well with the Asus A7V8X-X Socket > A motherboard. [1] > > I think it might therefore be time to try a different motherboard. Can any > body recommend a board that works well with em(4)? I'm looking for a > socket A board so I can keep the current Duron 1800, or possibly a Socket > 754 or 939. Don't really care about the rest of the specifications though > price is quite important (don't want onboard RAID or SCSI or anything > fancy). > > Thanks for any advice. > > [1 - I've tried everything: various patches; FreeBSD 4, 5 and 6; changing > the interrupt mode in the BIOS from ACIC to PIC; disabling ACPI...]
I can't really help you with the AMD motherboard, dont get much chance to work with them at Intel :) However, I wondered exactly what NIC you have? And have you tried taking the tip of tree driver, Scott and others have been hard at work tweaking it. I can't swear that we are 100% yet, but you should give that a try before a whole motherboard swap :) Cheers, Jack <Intel LAD> _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"