From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 22 12:59:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA12025 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 12:59:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.insolwwb.net (ns.insolwwb.net [206.31.149.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA12020 for ; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 12:59:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mgrommet@insolwwb.net) Received: from mikeg (work2.insolwwb.net [208.150.248.12]) by ns.insolwwb.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA09209 for ; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 14:42:52 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <000301be165a$61cac920$0cf896d0@mikeg.insolwwb.net> From: "Mike" To: Subject: Problems with this network card / driver? Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 14:55:05 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi guys... using 3.0 release on 2 servers....3.0 reports this particular card like this on boot lnc1: rev 0x25 int a irq 14 on pci1.5.0 lnc1: PCnet-FAST address 00:60:94:57:4c:f2 And things seem ok, until I start putting somewhat considerable load on the network card when this happens, I get lots of these: omega /kernel: lnc1: Transmit of packet failed after 16 attempts but the machine seems to hum along with no real noticeable speed problems... the data always is intact once its transferred too... These particular machines are IBM rackmounted server 325's... they have an onboard adaptec 7880 and built in ethernet... all in all a pretty dandy little machine as long as you overlook the integrated components... Actually I have 3 of these servers...... 1 of which runs freebsd 3.0, acting as a usenet newsgroup server... which gets these same errors 1 of which is a web server, running 3.0 and apache 1.3.3 (which has this same error) and the 3rd is running bsdi 4.0... it recognizes the card as an AMD ethernet derivative, but I cant remember the exact model. I do _not_ get these errors or anything resembling them from the bsdi machine, which by itself means nothing... It just makes me think that maybe there needs to be some investigation done on the driver for this particular card In any case should I be concerned at all? Like I said the machine hums along perfectly but being the paranoid little guy that I am, I want to know all the details before they reach up and bite me on the ass. Thanks for your input guys. Mike Grommet Unix Systems Adminstrator Internet Solutions, Inc. mgrommet@insolwwb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message