I am the maintainer of the dc driver. I have had about 3 ADMtek cards die
on me in a little over a year. I don't think it is a driver problem, they
used to work, and now they are flaky.

On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Jacob Meuser wrote:

> Hello-
>
> I had written earlier about my system occasionally coming to
> a total freeze when using my ethernet card. I included my
> dmesg (well, actually /var/log/messages). I am running 2.8
> stable, fully rebuilt Feb 6. The only reason I'm writing a
> second time, is that I haven't gotten a reply, while the
> idea that maybe 2.8 "is a lemon" has gotten a lot of replies.
> In my mind a single message stating that a system freezes
> (No, this is not a "piece of garbage". And no, it's not
> some "bleeding edge" hardware. I bought the hardware with
> the full intention to run an open source OS. Read the dmesg.)
> does a whole lot more to suggest that there may be serious
> problems with an OS than any amount of messages stating
> that they don't have problems.
>
> jakemsrclipper.net
>
> PS I added my dmesg again. I read the FAQ, which said
> perhaps the ADMtek AN983 might "wedge on transmit"?
> Basicly, I want to know if there is a way to buffer
> traffic on the card.
>

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Aaron Campbell (aaronmonkey.org || aaronopenbsd.org)
http://www.biodome.org/~fx

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