Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 03:39:38 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl> Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-hackers) Subject: Re: ethernet card incompatibilities? Message-ID: <199706031039.DAA06008@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Jun 1997 12:13:22 %2B0200." <199706031013.MAA27462@gvr.win.tue.nl>
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>I've got a network with bothe an old 8 bit smc 8003 card >on it and a Digital DC21041 on it. If it's an 8003, then it's a Western Digital, not an SMC, right? >When I have data transfers going on from the DEC card to the SMC card, >I am seeing input errors on the SMC card. Is this a known incompatibility? >The erros are not all equal. I'm seeing : 81, 86, a1, 21 and 1 >(see if_edreg.h at 'Receiver Status Register (RSR) definitions' >for an explanation of these errors). Hmmm. This sounds like a cabling problem like a crushed ethernet coax cable or something - especially since you're seeing CRC and frame alignment errors. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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