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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!mr.net!news.mr.net!scream.ing.com!cyberoptics.com!bpeters!not-for-mail From: peterson@mail.cyberoptics.com (Bruce Peterson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: "lnc" Device Problems. Date: 9 Mar 1996 15:07:58 -0600 Organization: Individual Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4hsrve$7g9@bpeters.cyber.mn.org> References: <4hfg0k$5rr@daily-planet.execpc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bpeters.uucp In article <4hfg0k$5rr@daily-planet.execpc.com>, Jeff Kane <jkane@earth.execpc.com> wrote: >According to the Faq, the driver "lnc" has known problems. I was wondering what >those problems are? I have what appears to be one of those caards, and am having >problems! I would like to know about workarounds, or fixes for it. Or at least, >whether it will work at all. I had a pair of lnc cards in a machine used for routing and providing smtp, nntp, nfs, and other IP services. They got numerous errors, including loss of heartbeat and buffer overflows. They appeared to work OK, even though the errors showed up in logs, except for nfs--that wouldn't work at all until I got rid of the lnc cards. NFS mounts succeeded, but any access would hang and finally time out. (The machine is running FBSD 2.1) >If you wnat to know, It will inet config, but it does not initialize fully. THis >causes me to not be able to install. THis machine is doing a install across NFS. >It does not have a CD locally. I can give better details if anybody is interested. -- Bruce Peterson - peterson@cyber.mn.org