Re: Is FreeBSD a Novelty Operating System?

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:31:12 GMT, Mike Scott wrote:

Sorry if this has gotten out before. I keep getting a failure status
and am trying to work out how to persuade s-news to post for me.

:>I've a bit of an odd problem with a j7f4 mobo, which has a pair of nics
:>identified by dmesg as RealTek 8169SC/8110SC.

It's a Realtek 8110SC according to the motherboard manual.

I've got the same motherboard. It's something to do with the driver not
taking them out of power off mode and has been fixed in a later driver
release but that's not compatible with 6.2. My solution was to go into
the BIOS and set them both to boot, they time out after a while and
they are both then available when it does boot.

I've noticed the same up/down messages and wondering if it's something
to do with power saving.

By the way which BIOS version have you got? Mine came with v4 but I had
to upgrade to v5 to get rid of memory errors. The last time I looked it
was at v7 but I couldn't get a download of it.

Also /var/log/messages has the up/down messages with the date and time.

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