I had a shutdown issue as well, come to think of it. I didn't have any page
faults, but I didn't do much with the system other than some basic tests of
the card. Does this driver have a maintainer? Any volunteers?
JN
- Original Message -
From: "Karl Heller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "John Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Karl Heller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 9:27 PM
Subject: Re: EtherExpress 16 not probed at boot on 4.5R
> >
> Thanks for the patch. It does detect the card now. However, the system
is now a bit unstable. It won't shutdown properly.. never gets to the
"press any key to reboot" screenk and has a page fault every now and then.
Not sure if this is related to the patch or not. But I was surprised to see
the dates from 2000.
>
> Karl
>
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Karl Heller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:39 AM
> > Subject: EtherExpress 16 not probed at boot on 4.5R
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I posted a bug report about this but haven't heard anything back.
I'll
> > > post here instead. =)
> > >
> > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=37240
> > >
> > > I have a Intel EtherExpress 16 that will not probe on boot, or with
a
> > > custom kernel. However, under 3.4R it does find it. I'm just
switching
> > > boot floppies and notice this. I've since installed 4.5R using CDRom,
> > > however, I'd like to get it working. Any thoughts or anyone want to
help
> > > debug this one. There was a previous bug report for another version
with
> > > similar problems but the issue was dropped.
> > >
> > > Please respond via email as I'm having some problems getting on the
stable
> > > email list.
> >
> > There was a thread about this a while ago on the newsgroup (the subject
was
> > "Ether16 NIC" if you want to look it up on google). Martin Birgmeier
posted
> > a patch which I successfully applied to a -stable machine and got my
card
> > working. I'm attaching a copy of Martin's patch so you can use it.
> >
> > To the list: PR kern/16937 is marked as closed even though this is an
issue
> > with -stable. There may be other PR's on this issue as well, but I
don't
> > know if any of them have patches included. If one of you wants to
> > submit/test/commit this I think that would be great.
> >
> > JN
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