From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 15 19:56:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E89C37B419 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 19:56:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 8958 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2002 03:50:37 -0000 Received: from dap-209-166-136-17.nfas.greensburg-tnt-1.sns234.pa.stargate.net (HELO wastegate.net) (209.166.136.17) by smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 16 Jan 2002 03:50:37 -0000 Received: from mother.wastegate.net (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.2]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 22E9348425; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:50:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" , "hawkeyd@visi.com" , "mark@influenced.net" Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:52:45 -0500 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2380) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <200201130031.g0D0VXZ81640@sheol.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Linksys LNE100TX Message-Id: <20020116035052.22E9348425@wastegate.net> 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 On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 18:31:33 -0600 (CST), D J Hawkey Jr wrote: >In article <11728569296.20020112163642_influenced.net@ns.sol.net>, > mark@influenced.net writes: >> Greetings, >> >> Ever since I installed FreeBSD (4.4, cvsup'd to 4.5 RC), I get these errors with regard to my >> LinkSys LNE100TX Network Card: >> >> Jan 10 18:37:14 gateway /kernel: dc0: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold >> Jan 10 19:04:32 gateway /kernel: dc0: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold >> Jan 10 19:10:28 gateway /kernel: dc0: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold >> Jan 11 22:08:57 gateway /kernel: dc0: TX underrun -- using store and forward mode >> Jan 12 16:21:05 gateway /kernel: dc0: watchdog timeout >> >> Having searched the archive, I can see that this isn't the first time >> this has happened with this card.. >> >> I've got 2 versions of this card, I think the current one I have in >> the machine is v4.1, I have v5.1 too (but I've not tried it).. i put one in a buddy's server: read cheap:. we were getting that error because of a miss configured cable modem plugged into it ( ie the outside interface ). had the cable company reconfigure it, and everything works fine now. >My firewall (FreeBSD 4.2) uses two of these cards, and I have no such >messages, no I/O errors, no nothing. 'ifconfig' picks them up right, too: > > dc0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > media: autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active > supported media: autoselect 100baseTX 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP none > dc1: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > media: autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active > supported media: autoselect 100baseTX 100baseTX 10baseT/UT > >'dmesg' reports: > > dc0: port 0x3000-0x30ff mem 0xf4100000-0xf41003ff irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci1 > dc1: port 0x3400-0x34ff mem 0xf4100400-0xf41007ff irq 10 at device 14.0 on pci1 > >> Anyway, what I'd like to know is why does this happen? I've "man 4 >> dc0"'d so I know what causes the errors, but why? Is the card just >> substandard? It seems fine in all the *cough* 98,2k,xp machines I >> have :( > >IIRC, some do regard them as cheapo-junk, but they're fine on my system. > >> Best regards, >> Mark mailto:mark@influenced.net > >Sorry, >Dave > >-- > >Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" >Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" >FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 6E7B 9993 B503 6D45 E33A 2019 26E5 C1DB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message