bge && amd systems- a curious side note...

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <7579f7fb0704201541t2383b895t4b850343d2f7deb7 at mail.gmail.com>, "Matt
hew Jacob" writes:
>I have an AMD box graciously given to me by David O'Brien. It has a
>bge chip on it. This box has suffered over the spasms of the bge
>driver of late in current.
>
>What *does* seem to happen is that it hangs during DHCP discovery- but
>if I ping it, it seems to unfreeze (see below). Just an FYI for those
>who are interested....

I reported the exact same thing recently.

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