From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 10 15:12:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA27798 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 15:12:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA27793 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 15:12:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA17762; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 15:11:49 -0800 Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 15:11:47 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Ryan M Snedegar cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Intel EE16 prbolems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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