From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 12 1:42:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailg.telia.com (mailg.telia.com [194.22.194.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A64E156E0 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 01:41:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from khaled@mailbox.telia.net) Received: from mailbox.telia.net (khaled@mailbox.telia.net [194.237.170.234]) by mailg.telia.com (8.8.5/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA03328 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 10:40:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (khaled@localhost) by mailbox.telia.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA15836 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 10:40:58 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 10:40:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Khaled Daham To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: DE-500BA problems Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello! I have 3 machines with digital DE-500 ethernet cards One machine has DE-500AA and is working perfectly .. The two other machines have DE-500BA cards and in 100BaseTX/full-duplex netstat reports errors and collisions input (Total) output packets errs bytes packets errs bytes colls 84 0 17128 192 0 82128 0 392 0 408687 106 3 85912 3 239 0 216316 221 2 69636 4 112 0 86087 0 0 58206 0 78 0 16203 106 1 66902 0 Ive replaced cables,switched cards ( these machines have 2 nic's each , but im only using one at the moment ) and switched ports on the catalyst 5000 .. newsb.telia.net# uname -a FreeBSD newsb.telia.net 3.1-19990219-STABLE FreeBSD 3.1-19990219-STABLE #0: Mon Feb 22 16:31:18 GMT 1999 root@newsb.telia.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/NEWS i386 (Yes its due to an upgrade) newsc.telia.net# uname -a FreeBSD newsc.telia.net 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #1: Wed Aug 11 12:53:00 CEST 1999 root@newsb.telia.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/NEWS_KERNEL i386 the cards are recognized as this on both machines ( the DE500-AA has a 21140 chip ) de0: irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0 de0: DEC DE500-BA 21143 [10-100Mb/s] pass 3.0 de0: address 00:00:f8:10:38:73 de1: irq 12 at device 11.0 on pci0 de1: DEC DE500-BA 21143 [10-100Mb/s] pass 3.0 de1: address 00:00:f8:10:42:4d Any hints on what could be causing the errors & collisions ? if the driver is at fault here I can test patches as one machine is not used in production at all .. I know that bsd/os had problems with the DE500-BA cards aswell , but that problem resulted in a freezing machine on heavy netload .. /Khaled, Telia Network Services Mail: khaled@telia.net Cell: 070-6785492 Work: 08-4567281 :hacker: /n./ [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message