On Wednesday 16 February 2005 12:59, Robert Watson wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Juan Rodriguez wrote: > > Just for your information (because I guess there's nothing else we can > > do....), I will describe the setup I've got in case anyone would like to > > reproduce the problem and try to fix it. > > > > I'm using FreeBSD 5.3.0 RELEASE on an Pentium I MMX 233, with 128 MB of > > RAM (minus 1 MB that my onboard VGA card takes off). The motherboard is > > ASUS SPv97 (or something like that) > > If possible, the first thing would be to try moving to the head of > 5-STABLE to see if the bug has already been fixed there already or not. A > significant number of interesting bugs have been fixed since the release > of 5.3. If that doesn't correct the problem, the next thing to do is to > take a look at the section of the handbook on reporting kernel panics and > hangs. It would be quite interesting to know if the machine still > responds to pings once it has appeared to hang. There have been reported > problems with realtek network cards, it would probably be premature to > blame the hardware at this point.
Still, in case moving to RELENG_5 does not help, you could try the patch in kern/61448 that addresses one of the rl(4) issues and is pending for to be MFCed. -- /"\ Best regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News
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