From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 13 12:17:52 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2107A37B401 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:17:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from postal3.es.net (postal3.es.net [198.128.3.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C55D43E4A for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:17:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal3.es.net (Postal Node 3) with ESMTP id MUA74016; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:17:44 -0800 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 90C9B5D04; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:16:19 -0800 (PST) To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Cc: FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: Still problems with PCCARD NICs In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:24:14 +1030." <20030113005414.GF1120@wantadilla.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:16:19 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20030113201619.90C9B5D04@ptavv.es.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:24:14 +1030 > From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG > > I haven't done much with PCCARD on -CURRENT lately. Last time I > tried, a couple of months ago, I got repeated freezes on the two 100 > Mb/s NICs I have. I've just built a kernel as of about 30 hours ago, > and I find: > > 1. Xircom RealPort RE-100 (xe driver). > > Comes up with unidentified media. Doesn't react to dhclient. > Won't let me set the mediaopt. I have to first set a valid IP > address, after which it comes up as 100baseTX. I can't find a way > to set full-duplex, but maybe the card doesn't support it. > > I tried to tar an NFS-mounted file system to see how fast it went: > > tar cf /dev/null /src > > Almost immediately, I got these messages, repeated frequently: > > Jan 13 10:57:29 sydney kernel: xe0: discard oversize frame (ether type 800 flags 3 len 1518 > max 1514) > Jan 13 10:58:13 sydney kernel: xe0: discard oversize frame (ether type 800 flags 3 len 1518 > max 1514) > > I checked at the other end and confirmed that the frames were in > fact 1514 bytes long. Odd. I've been running RC2 for a few days using an RE-100 with no problems. Is it possible that the frames are getting 802.1Q tags (4 bytes) added to them? R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message