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Subject: D-Link DFE-550TX Woes
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I have had problems with the D-Link DFE-550TX card ever since I installed FreeBSD.4.1-RELEASE  

<2 3699-0> (10:15:58) [ dk@omnia ~ ]% uname -vm
FreeBSD 4.2-BETA #0: Fri Nov 10 17:39:54 EST 2000
root@omnia.qwarp.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/MATRIX  i386

<2 3700-0> (10:16:03) [ dk@omnia ~ ]% dmesg | grep -i ste0
ste0: <D-Link DFE-550TX 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe400-0xe47f mem 0xe1000000-0xe100007f irq 11 
at device 8.0 on pci0

<2 3701-0> (10:19:50) [ dk@omnia ~ ]% tail /var/log/messages
Nov 30 01:23:41 omnia /kernel: ste0: transmission error: 88
Nov 30 02:19:55 omnia /kernel: ste0: transmission error: 88
Nov 30 02:20:06 omnia /kernel: ste0: transmission error: 88
Nov 30 02:35:45 omnia last message repeated 2 times
Nov 30 06:17:06 omnia /kernel: ste0: transmission error: 88
Nov 30 07:28:03 omnia /kernel: ste0: transmission error: 88
Nov 30 09:47:55 omnia /kernel: ste0: transmission error: 88
Nov 30 09:57:22 omnia last message repeated 24 times
Nov 30 10:08:05 omnia last message repeated 32 times
Nov 30 10:08:40 omnia last message repeated 3 times

Every now and then my network connection would stall.  Even if it doesn't, 
I utilize no more than 20% of the bandwith according to GKrellm.   This is a brand new NIC.

Any suggestions on why the NIC keeps stalling?

If this is a driver/NIC specific issue, I am willing to purchase a 3c905x
since I believe the xl device has been proven and tested good under
FreeBSD.

dk




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