I was trying to take a box that was running an old version of BSDi and move it to FreeBSD current. My first try was with the first CD I could find, which was 3.2 (I have later ones, they're just deeper in the pile than I cared to look for). The box, after install, was kinda unstable, given to sudden lockups, and the driver for the DNET card with the AX8841 in it would lock right up when I tried it. On reboot, with the older unfixed fsck, it would take multiple reboots to recover from the lockups, so I shuttled (via floppy) a kernel compiled under current (with the dc0 driver) and /bin and /sbin to the new machine. Now, excepting network, it's stable as a rock, but when I try use the network card, it locks up about 1 second after the ifconfig. Let me give more details. The dmesg part that's pertinent: dc0: <ASIX AX88140A 10/100BaseTX> port 0x6100-0x617f mem 0xf0201000-0xf020107f irq 12 at device 19.0 on pci0 dc0: Ethernet address: 00:80:ad:41:4a:95 miibus0: <MII bus> on dc0 amphy0: <Am79C873 10/100 media interface> on miibus0 amphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto I added a little reformatting, my mailer bends lines. Anyhow, doing a ifconfig -a gets me an entry for the dc0, so I tried setting the inet and netmask. The next second, each and every time (I've done this 4 times) it locks up solid. Before I do this, kldstat shows only the kernel loaded, and my /modules comes from the same current as the kernel (I never run kernel and user out of sync anyhow), so an out-of-sync kld being loaded shouldn't, I think, cause a lockup. Anyone know what the dmesg line that reads "amphy0" means? I only have ONE network card in there, that's an absolute fact. The machine's pretty bare, just scsi, vga, and network card (the cdrom's scsi). One scsi disk, one floppy. And problems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message