sk0 problems

[Andre Guibert de Bruet]

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Mike Jakubik wrote:

> Tomas Randa said:
>
>> i am using network card Marvell Semiconductor 88E1000 with sk driver on
>> FreeBSD 5.2.1 on two machines, but i have problem with it.
>> When a high traffic is going through the interface (about 6-9MB/s), the
>> card stops working, no ping, no answer, no message in log. Sometimes
>> help do ifconfig sk0 down and up, but sometimes not.
>
> Myself and others are also havingthis problem, me on the Asus SK8 mb. Have
> a look at the -amd64 and -net mailing lists for more info about this. I
> dont think (sadly) anyone is working on a fix however, so your best bet is
> to get a new card.

I have a couple of cards that use this same driver (Of the Linksys brand 
though) and they work without issues under STABLE. IIRC, the driver was 
MFC'ed... I'll look into the diffs between both drivers.

Andy

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