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Date:      Mon, 28 Jul 1997 17:27:13 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        max@iclub.nsu.ru (Max Khon)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AMD PCNet/PCI troubles
Message-ID:  <199707280757.RAA05486@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970728124746.8750A-100000@iclub.nsu.ru> from Max Khon at "Jul 28, 97 12:54:24 pm"

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Max Khon stands accused of saying:
> 
> We've got fifteen workstations with AMD PCNet/PCI network adapters
> Linux runs perfectly with this cards, but FreeBSD LANCE driver seems to
> be quite unstable:

Is it "unstable", or is it just verbose in its complaining?

> Jul 28 12:38:13 ws09 /kernel: lnc1: Receive CRC error
> Jul 28 12:38:14 ws09 /kernel: lnc1: Framming error

These two indicate that there's something bad going on with either your
cabling or a card that's generating bad signal.

> Jul 28 12:38:13 ws09 /kernel: lnc1: Babble error - more than 1519 bytes transmitted

This is directly reporting an error from the Lance.  It doesn't look
too good.  8(

I don't have access to a current Linux kernel tree (as getting such an
animal requires real effort, as opposed to the FreeBSD tree 8), so I can't
check offhand and see if they actually report these errors to the console.

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