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Date:      Mon, 23 Nov 1998 00:03:47 +0100
From:      Thierry Herbelot <herbelot@cybercable.fr>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Mike <mgrommet@insolwwb.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems with this network card / driver?
Message-ID:  <36589853.58BA9D8D@cybercable.fr>
References:  <199811222110.NAA13433@dingo.cdrom.com>

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Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> > Hi guys... using 3.0 release on 2 servers....3.0 reports this particular
> > card like this on boot
> >
> > lnc1: <PCNet/PCI Ethernet adapter> rev 0x25 int a irq 14 on pci1.5.0
> > lnc1: PCnet-FAST address 00:60:94:57:4c:f2
> 
> Yeah.  The lnc driver is pretty marginal at the moment.  I'd avoid it
> if at all possilble.  I ran some tests at the local IBM evaluation lab
> and I wasn't too happy with the onboard ethernet.  Try an Intel
> EtherExpress Pro/100B instead if you're really concerned.

Hello,

Just for the record, I've set up a pretty ancient (but working well)
486DX2 - 66 from HP with an on-board Lnc NIC, and I've got lots of these
errors (on a busy net). But the box is running happily.

	TfH
> 
> > 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.
> 
> If it's working OK, then it'll probably continue to work just fine.
> It's quite likely that the BSD/OS driver just doesn't bother to report
> this error (which seems to indicate a very busy ethernet).
> 
> --
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