From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Nov 4 02:05:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA27554 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 02:05:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA27542 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 02:04:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA19415; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:03:56 GMT Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:03:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Simon Shapiro cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What do these mean? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > Please save me the source hunting. what do the following messages mean? > The machine is connected to a 3Com Linkbuilder 9at 100MHz). Everything else > on that hub is FreeBSD but on the Intel boards, excpet the other Alpha > which has a built-in tulip. > > de0: abnormal interrupt: transmit underflow (raising TX threshold to 96|256) > de0: abnormal interrupt: transmit underflow (raising TX threshold to > 128|512) > de0: abnormal interrupt: transmit underflow (raising TX threshold to > 160|1024) I get these all the time. They are harmless but annoying. The driver seems to set up the wrong values for one of my de cards and then realise its mistake later when it gets a few underflows. I had this with NetBSD too so I haven't tried to debug it. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message