dc0 card drops connection on FreeBSD 6.1

[Watanabe Kazuhiro]

Hi.

At Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:44:01 -0800,
Loren M. Lang wrote:
> I am having issues with an ethernet card running under FreeBSD
> 6.1-RELEASE.  It is dc0 and pciconf reports it as Conexant Systems.
> Network connections hang most of the time and usually timeout.  FTP and
> HTTP downloads with move along for a short time and hang every 3% or so
> for several minutes before continuing or timing out.  I installed
> FreeBSD 6.1 a month ago on a fresh hard drive, but about 5 months ago my
> old hard drive crashed which was running FreeBSD 5.4, though I never had
> any issues with the network card for 5.4 or, previously, 4.9.  This
> system was running for several years with no issues until the Hard drive
> crashed 5 months ago.
> 
> dc0: <Conexant LANfinity MiniPCI 10/100BaseTX> port 0x1400-0x14ff mem
> 0xf4000000-0xf4003fff irq 9 at device 9.0 on pci0
> miibus0: <MII bus> on dc0
> ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
> ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> dc0: Ethernet address: 00:50:8b:ab:99:d5
> pci0: <simple comms> at device 9.1 (no driver attached)
> pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 10.0 (no driver attached)
> 
> -- 
> Loren M. Lang
> lorenl at alzatex.com
> http://www.alzatex.com/

Will you try to specify the media type in /etc/rc.conf ?

For example:
ifconfig_dc0="inet 192.168.0.x media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex netmask 255.255.255.0"

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Watanabe Kazuhiro (CQG00620 at nifty.ne.jp)