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#! rnews 2072 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.maxwell.syr.edu!mr.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-chi-13.sprintlink.net!news.cyberenet.net!news From: Lorraine Goldeck <Lorraine@goldcominc.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Random system freezes [FIXED] Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 05:18:08 -0500 Organization: GoldCom Inc. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <332925E0.37A8@goldcominc.com> References: <332550B7.7081@goldcominc.com> <3325923D.500F9F30@FreeBSD.org> Reply-To: Lorraine@goldcominc.com NNTP-Posting-Host: goldcom.ppp.cyberenet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37116 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Lorraine Goldeck wrote: > > Trying to put a 486DX33 to work as an Inet gateway for a small LAN - I > > installed FreeBSD 2.2-215GAMMA (for the ppp -alias) and everything was > > working great for the many hours I was setting up. Then I connected > > another PC (Win95) via the generic NE2000 (that was installed and > > apparently fine) on ed0. It will work great for 1-5 minutes, ppp aliased > > Internet and all, but inevitably it will lock up without a burp. If I > > remove the LAN connection it's solid as a rock. > > Hmmmm. It does sound as if you've found a bug. When you say "it will > lock up" do you also mean the entire machine goes (e.g. it's truly dead > and cannot be pinged or logged into from the console) or just its > outgoing ppp connection or... ? > Sorry to worry you Jordan, no bug! This problem is now fixed. All it took was an adjustment to the BIOS AT bus speed setting to make the NE2000 happy. I'm proud to say my FreeBSD (2.2 GAMMA) Internet gateway, that cost $0.00 by putting to use an old 486DX33, is happily humming away! Now I have to setup a dual-boot on my workstation, and maybe eventually delete that Windows altogether :-)