From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 12 16:31:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from brea.mc.mpls.visi.com (brea.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E7FE37B400 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 16:31:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from sheol.localdomain (hawkeyd-fw.dsl.visi.com [208.42.101.193]) by brea.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A2A12DDE54; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 18:31:34 -0600 (CST) Received: (from hawkeyd@localhost) by sheol.localdomain (8.11.1/8.11.1) id g0D0VXZ81640; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 18:31:33 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from hawkeyd) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 18:31:33 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200201130031.g0D0VXZ81640@sheol.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8a Reply-To: hawkeyd@visi.com Organization: if (!FIFO) if (!LIFO) break; References: <11728569296.20020112163642_influenced.net@ns.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <11728569296.20020112163642_influenced.net@ns.sol.net> From: hawkeyd@visi.com (D J Hawkey Jr) Subject: Re: Linksys LNE100TX X-Original-Newsgroups: sol.lists.freebsd.questions To: mark@influenced.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <11728569296.20020112163642_influenced.net@ns.sol.net>, mark@influenced.net writes: > Greetings, > > Ever since I installed FreeBSD (4.4, cvsup'd to 4.5 RC), I get these errors with regard to my > LinkSys LNE100TX Network Card: > > Jan 10 18:37:14 gateway /kernel: dc0: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold > Jan 10 19:04:32 gateway /kernel: dc0: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold > Jan 10 19:10:28 gateway /kernel: dc0: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold > Jan 11 22:08:57 gateway /kernel: dc0: TX underrun -- using store and forward mode > Jan 12 16:21:05 gateway /kernel: dc0: watchdog timeout > > Having searched the archive, I can see that this isn't the first time > this has happened with this card.. > > I've got 2 versions of this card, I think the current one I have in > the machine is v4.1, I have v5.1 too (but I've not tried it).. My firewall (FreeBSD 4.2) uses two of these cards, and I have no such messages, no I/O errors, no nothing. 'ifconfig' picks them up right, too: dc0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 media: autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active supported media: autoselect 100baseTX 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP none dc1: flags=8843 mtu 1500 media: autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active supported media: autoselect 100baseTX 100baseTX 10baseT/UT 'dmesg' reports: dc0: port 0x3000-0x30ff mem 0xf4100000-0xf41003ff irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci1 dc1: port 0x3400-0x34ff mem 0xf4100400-0xf41007ff irq 10 at device 14.0 on pci1 > Anyway, what I'd like to know is why does this happen? I've "man 4 > dc0"'d so I know what causes the errors, but why? Is the card just > substandard? It seems fine in all the *cough* 98,2k,xp machines I > have :( IIRC, some do regard them as cheapo-junk, but they're fine on my system. > Best regards, > Mark mailto:mark@influenced.net Sorry, Dave -- Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message