Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 16:03:47 +0200 From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@ftf.net> To: Larry Lile <lile@stdio.com> Cc: freebsd-tokenring@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status on Olicom driver ? Message-ID: <19990708160347.13356@ns.int.ftf.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907070858230.26770-100000@heathers.stdio.com>; from Larry Lile on Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 09:21:14AM -0400 References: <19990707122849.28764@ns.int.ftf.net> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907070858230.26770-100000@heathers.stdio.com>
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Larry Lile writes: > > On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Phil Regnauld wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've been away for a while -- what's the status on the Olicom drivers -- > > are ther still problems or are they working now ? > > > > (I remind my problem: 4.0-SNAP-19990421 worked, but not 4.0-SNAP-19990527 for example). > [...] > The second and worst is that the PMW kit ceases to call > TransmitFrameCompleted. This causes the driver/card to run out of > transmit buffers and there is no way to recover except reboot. In my case, ifconfig down flushes the packets, and ifconfig up gets the interface up and running again (until next burst) -- mild traffic doesn't kill it... > I can't help but think that since newbus went in on 4/16 that there is > some correlation with the second problem. But 4/21 works... (except for repeated "receive error. (ReceiveStatus=3)" on the console, and it also says "adapter not ready to come up", or similar, when I ifconfig the oltr0 for the first time -- but it works anyway). > Needless to say I am very frustrated that I haven't been able to fix > these problems, but I am still working on them. I still have a lot > of cleaning up to do in the driver but these 3 things have me tied > up. Is this purely FreeBSD related -- i.e.: wouldn't the Olicom people be able to help a little ? > Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am getting ready to look > for help on -hackers shortly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-tokenring" in the body of the message
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