Any experience with "Asus A8N-SLi" or "Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI" mobos?

[Mark Magiera]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:13:39 -0800
"David O'Brien" <obrien at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 03:02:07AM +0000, Joseph Koshy wrote:
> > > My main, if not only problem is the NIC being so unreliable.
> > You may want to upgrade to 5.3-STABLE.
> > I installed 5.3-RELEASE on an ASUS K8V (which has the same
> > NIC).  I kept the following loop running in the background
> > 
> >   while :; do
> >   sleep 20
> >   ifconfig sk0 down
> >   ifconfig sk0 up
> >   done
> > 
> > this kept the network driver usable while I downloaded
> > the -stable tree.
> 
> Great advice.  Thanks!

Indeed, thank you very much. -stable here I come :)