Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:41:20 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Scott Mitchell" <scott.mitchell@mail.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Error on xl0 Message-ID: <012201c17331$77518ef0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <010b01c172d6$186032d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011121230655.B307@localhost>
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Scott writes: > At a guess, it means your Ethernet card ran out > of data to send partway through a packet. Sifting through the Net, I noticed mentions of this error in connection with SCSI interfaces, although I have nothing attached to my SCSI adapter at the moment. Apparently it is not a fatal error. > A lack of bandwidth somewhere in your system > could cause this kind of thing... were you generating > a lot of network traffic and hammering your > disk(s) at the same time with the fvwm compile? Maybe. Also, the LAN is 100 Mbps, but the connection to the outside world is a 10 Mbps Ethernet connection to a 1 Mbps DSL line--a 100-to-1 difference. I don't know if that would be significant. As long as it is recoverable, I guess it doesn't matter. What little I was able to dig up implied that it wasn't a hardware error, although it might be the result of a hardware limitation. > I believe from previous exchanges that you're running > a board with a VIA 686 southbridge -- these *are* known > to have issues with data corruption and sensitivity wrt > what's plugged in where on the PCI bus. According to the FAQ, some motherboard manufacturers have tweaked their BIOS to resolve sound-card issues in a way that conflicts with the chipset. Of the several solutions listed, that of replacing the drivers doesn't help much, because only Windows drivers are provided. If a driver problem can be fixed to resolve it, that would imply that some driver in FreeBSD needs to be changed to resolve the problem. However, I don't even know that I have any such problem. The symptoms are not described. I don't use the sound card at all, and in fact the machine has never made any noise, which implies to me that no sound-card support is installed. (How do I know if sound-card support is present?) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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