hi all! I've been using OpenBSD during the last 2-3 years mainly running
it as a firewall.

I've an old machine (486 + 48MB RAM) and yesterday decided to make
some improvements: upgrade it from 4.0 to 4.2 (new installation) and
replace the two NICs, switching from NE2000 clones (RTL8029) to 3C905B.
The problem is that i'm getting ton of this messages which
bring down the two interfaces:

xl0: reset didn't complete
xl1: reset didn't complete
xl0: command never completed!
xl1: command never completed!

I found that man xl already has some information about 'command never
completed' but in this case the driver does not continue to function
normally. Is this problem a combination of old hardware with the xl
interfaces ? or are this interfaces crap too ? switching to a newer
machine (pentium 166) may help ? or should I buy different NICs ?

Thanks in advance for any help!.
Jorge

PS: by the way, I'm still having with 4.2 a keyboard issue reported on
2006-01-06:
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=113658848307726&w=2


OpenBSD 4.2 (GENERIC) #375: Tue Aug 28 10:38:44 MDT 2007
     deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel 486DX (486-class)
real mem  = 49905664 (47MB)
avail mem = 39297024 (37MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 07/25/94, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf7810
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.0
apm0: AC on, battery is unknown
apm0: flags 30100 dobusy 0 doidle 1
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.0 @ 0xf0000/0x10000
pcibios0: pcibios_get_intr_routing - function not supported
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing information unavailable.
pcibios0: PCI bus #0 is the last bus
WARNING: can't reserve area for I/O APIC.
WARNING: can't reserve area for Local APIC.
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000
cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios)
xl0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 "3Com 3c905B 100Base-TX" rev 0x30: irq 11,
address 00:01:02:6e:c5:08
exphy0 at xl0 phy 24: 3Com internal media interface
xl1 at pci0 dev 14 ...
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For myself, I decided to ditch the xl NICs and go with sk (D-Link
DGE-530T, older Linksys EG1032) and vge (ZyXEL GN670-T, I believe).

Two recent onboard re chips work fine aswell, but they wouldn't deal with
carp.

See:
http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html
under "Gigabit Ethernet Adapters".

HTH... Nico

P.S. (Although personally, I'd ditch the 486 aswell)

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