BTW, which driver version are you using? The Donald Becker series or the standard Kernel driver?
I think i recall some minor problems related to 3Com nic drivers in the past bu cannot recall right now which ones... > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 3:57 PM > To: Roger E McClurg; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Bering lost it's NICs > > > That's odd, > > I have two Bering installations, one regular, once UClibc and both are > running 3Com 509B cards. > Are your cards the 509 or 509B? > > I'm not having any problems, but i have access to both type > of cards. I > could try to recreate the problem at my end with a test > machine to narrow > down the problem. > > Let me know all the specs on hardware so I can try to > duplicate your machine > as closely as possible. > > Thanks > > Tony > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Roger E McClurg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 10:00 AM > Subject: RE: [leaf-user] Bering lost it's NICs > > > > I reported this same problem some months ago. I used > Dachstein for a year > > with no problem. As soon as I changed over to Bering 1.2 > the internal NIC > > would cease responding after it got any kind of a load. > Transferring a 1 > > meg file would do it. No one on the list seemed to have the > problem except > > me. > > > > It looks like the problem is in the Bering drivers for the > particular > > NICs. The NIC that had the problem for me was a 3Com 3C509. I tried > > downloading the drivers from the Bering site again just to be sure I > > didn't have a corrupted driver (Yep, I made sure they were > for the same > > kernel). No matter the driver I had the exact same problem. > > > > I didn't have the time keep slogging at the problem, so I > went back to > > Dachstein and the problem went away. Eventually I loaded Bering on a > > different computer with newer NICs and had no problems at all. > > > > Roger > > > > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Subject: RE: [leaf-user] Bering lost it's NICs > > >From: "J. James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 09:44:23 +0300 > > > > > >Hi > > > > > >It's nice to see someone else also having the same > problem... I'm sorry: > > I > > >just read about a pop star visiting a local jail and the > first thing he > > >said to the audience was "nice to see so many of you here > today" ;-) > > > > > >> I have the same problem from Bering V1.1 and now Bering V1.2. > > >> All nics ok except eth0 with PPPoE providers, on two > differents boxes > > >> ... > > >> Are you using PPPoE ? > > > > > >No. And maybe I should also tell that I've used the same > hardware with > > the > > >old LRP firewall with no problems. > > > > > >But surely we can't be the only two unlucky Bering users - > can we? Any > > help > > >would be greatly appreciated. After all I chose > Linux/Bering for it's > > >stability. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > > leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > > SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
