Hi Uwe, Uwe Dippel wrote: > [i]It can be packet routing problem. But big beep from your other mail is > not, of course :-)[/i] > > Thanks for your understanding. > The routing problem should be alleviated by nwam; later. > My main concern was and is on the freeze. Also this time, as the beep > started, I could still write and post the message. But no more 'ps'. I could > close the terminals, but could not open any other; but still navigate with > the mouse to other applications, and even open a gedit ('Text Editor'). > Around 10 minutes later name resolution stopped, though I could still > mouse-click to other windows. Finally a few more minutes into the scenario, > mouse clicks also would not work, the keyboard would be dead. Another hard > reset was on the order. > > There *is* a serious problem with a driver that reproducibly brings down a > system. plug-unplug/plumb-unplumb or not. > Wrong, these "freezing" has nothing related with driver, you can try without rum driver, only "rge0", you will encounter same problem. This phenomenon is a well known issue, you can go to "networking-discuss at opensolaris.org" for more information, there are more experts.
-- Quaker > Uwe >