From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Nov 4 14:51:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22794 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 14:51:36 -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 OAA22785 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 14:51:26 -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 WAA21074; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 22:49:32 GMT Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 22:49:32 +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 Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > 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. I'm not really sure. Mine autosenses correctly for both 10baseT and 100baseT. Maybe 'ifconfig de0 media 10baseT'. -- 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