From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 16 0:16:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 980C137B42C for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 00:16:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [195.11.243.26] (helo=Debug) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15tOSV-0000JV-00; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 07:16:15 +0000 To: , From: Cliff Sarginson Subject: Re: Missed Packet / Memory error / Babble error Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 07:16:15 GMT X-Mailer: www.webmail.nl.demon.net X-Sender: postmaster@btvs.demon.nl X-Originating-IP: 192.250.25.251 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I just finished installing FreeBSD for the 6th time, and I just cant shake > this error. First of all, the error is: > > lnc0: Transmit late collision -- Net error? > lnc0: Loss of carrier during transmit -- Net error? > lnc0: Transmit of packet failed after 16 attempts -- TDR = %d > lnc0: Heartbeat error -- SQE test failed > lnc0: Babble error - more than 1519 bytes transmitted > lnc0: Transmit interrupt but not start of packet -- Resetting > lnc0: Start of packet found before end of previous in transmit ring -- > Resetting > lnc0: End of transmitted packet not found -- Resetting > lnc0: Transmit buffer error -- Resetting > lnc0: Transmit underflow error - Resetting > > Anyway, I have a 3com NIC card in, which is device xl0. > I did an ifconfig, and it shows my 3com device (xl0), lp0, the lnc0 device, > lo0, ppp0, sl0, and faith0. I did a little research on the net, and this > lnc0 device is a NIC card that I do not have installed. Under the ifconfig > stats, it only shows xl0 with any type of networking stats (IP address, > etc). So I figured I just needed to delete or disable that lnc0 interface. I > tried to do a "ifconfig lnc0 down", and that really did nothing. Besides > that, I don't know what else to do. Where can I go to tell FreeBSD to forget > about this interface, and does anyone know if there would be any detrimental > effects to doing this? > > Thanks, > Brian Strangely enough I had this problem on an old PC of mine that had an onboard lnc type controller (which I didn't use). I am not sure if I solved it but I did notice that having it plugged into the network when I booted the system stopped the complaints. I could then unplug it and I never heard another peep. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message