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From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Subject: Re: What do these mean?
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Doug Rabson, On 04-Nov-98 you wrote:
>  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.

Never seen that in i386, but never managed to get this card working in 
i386 machine.  BTW, what will the ifconfig arguments be when hooking up
this card to a 10BaseT hub?  Autosense fails.

Simon


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