From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Dec 4 16:50:25 1995 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA16267 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 16:50:25 -0800 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA16262 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 16:50:23 -0800 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.50]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id QAA06058; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 16:50:18 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id QAA05833; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 16:50:35 -0800 Message-Id: <199512050050.QAA05833@corbin.Root.COM> To: Ollivier Robert cc: hardware@freebsd.org (Hardware Mailing list) Subject: Re: Weird problem with ether card In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 05 Dec 95 00:50:19 +0100." <199512042350.AAA00271@keltia.freenix.fr> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 16:50:34 -0800 Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >When an Ethernet card begin to see or emit packets like the following >during a simple "ping", is the card dead or what ? Some packets go fine for >a while then lose some then is good again ad vitam eternam. > >The card on the BSD side is a WD 8013EP which worked fine till sunday. > >The other side is a sparcbook but it shouldn't matter. > >I've changed cables, changed to the AUI port with an external transeiver, >used RJ45 twisted cable with 10BT transeiver but no change. > >ed0 at 0x300-0x31f irq 10 maddr 0xcc000 msize 16384 on isa >ed0: address 00:00:c0:4d:ed:08, type WD8013EP (16 bit) > >tcpdump output: > >15:19:17.934019 0:0:0:a2:0:1 > 0:0:0:4d:0:8 null I (s=42,r=0,P) len=234 The ethernet address doesn't even come out correctly...yes, I'd say your card is quite unhappy. Is it possible that you might have another ISA card in the 0x300-31f range? If not then I'd say the card was going bad. -DG