Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 22:00:16 -0500 (CDT) From: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com> To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alignment error in de driver Message-ID: <199809110300.WAA01202@home.dragondata.com> In-Reply-To: <199809101955.VAA09032@yedi.iaf.nl> from Wilko Bulte at "Sep 10, 98 09:55:26 pm"
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> I'm currently evaluating an interesting (I think) PCI card that I borrowed > for that purpose. It is a card that houses a pair of NCR875 Ultra SCSI > chips and a DEC 21140A 10/100 mbit ethernet chip. To glue all of this > together there is also a DEC pci bridge chip. > > I like this card because it has the potential to free some of my precious > PCI slots. > > Initial tests indicate that FreeBSD 2.2.6 recognises everything just fine. > I tested one of the SCSI channels and it looks just fine with bonnie etc. > First need some SCSI devices to populate the second channel. > > The ethernet also looks fine, although I can only test it with 10mbit > (no 100mbit at home yet). There is one phenomenon I don't get: > > de0: receive: 00:00:24:06:32:56: alignment error > de0: receive: 00:00:24:06:32:56: alignment error > de0: receive: 00:00:24:06:32:56: alignment error > de0: receive: 00:00:24:06:32:56: alignment error > de0: receive: 00:00:24:06:32:56: alignment error > de0: receive: 00:00:24:06:32:56: alignment error > > is displayed on the console. Just every now and then, it is currently > compile a kernel via NFS. Works just fine, save for the messages. You can ignore that error.... alignment errors are an unfortunate side effect of ethernet.. It's essentially saying 'I received a bad packet'. I'm not sure why the author of the de driver decided to leave that in... All other drivers (afaik) don't bother printing it... Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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