Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 15:11:47 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Ryan M Snedegar <ramses@lithium.cdrom.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Intel EE16 prbolems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960310150849.17587G-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960310010548.18778A-100000@lithium.cdrom.com>
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On Sun, 10 Mar 1996, Ryan M Snedegar wrote: I'll take a shot at this with some guesses. > I just installed FreeBSD 2.1 (cd version) onto a workstation with an > intel ether express 16 card. However, when it boots, i get one of two > contiually recurring comments-- > ix.cx.excesscoll > or > ix.cx.heartbeatix.cx.excesscoll "excesscoll" sounds like "excess collisions", and may point to a network problem. > I would guess that this message means something about either the cable > being bad, or the card not being set up right. I have replaced the > cable, and still get the messages. I also checked the configuration, and > reset it (using softset, booted from a dos floppy), and they appear to be > correct. Am I missing something here? Do any other machines on the same network have the same problem? What kind of network are you using? (10baseT, coax?) > I once saw a message that said > "ixintr without init" or something along those lines... if you can > provide any information, or tell me that i am missing something, I would > appreciate it greatly. I saw this on our card once, I ended up cold booting the machine. I think it means the card wasn't properly initalized. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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