From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 10 20:00:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA27407 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 20:00:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from home.dragondata.com (home.dragondata.com [204.137.237.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA27399 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 20:00:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toasty@home.dragondata.com) Received: (from toasty@localhost) by home.dragondata.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id WAA01202; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 22:00:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Kevin Day Message-Id: <199809110300.WAA01202@home.dragondata.com> Subject: Re: alignment error in de driver In-Reply-To: <199809101955.VAA09032@yedi.iaf.nl> from Wilko Bulte at "Sep 10, 98 09:55:26 pm" To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 22:00:16 -0500 (CDT) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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