Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 14:11:22 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: LARRYD@bldg1.croute.com (Larry Dolinar) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Message-ID: <199511112111.OAA08051@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <98E3BF6647F@bldg1.croute.com> from "Larry Dolinar" at Nov 11, 95 01:34:45 pm
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> Thus spake Jerry Alexandratos <alexandr@louie.udel.edu> (Sat, 11 Nov > 1995): > > | From: > > | > | My first question. I've got a Cabletron e2212 ethernet card. It's > | ne2100 compatible. I've installed it and played around with it with > | using the boot floppy. I get the craziest message though. What does > | `lnc0: Heartbeat error - SQE test failed' mean anyway? Is this going > > Check your doc.s: there's probably something to enable/disable the SQE > test (Cabletron generally ships disabled) on the NIC -- probably needs to > be on, but only guessing... Typically, you want this off. If it isn't on on both your hub and your card, it will blow chunks on one or the other. If it is off on both, it will work fine. If it is on on both, it will work fine. Typically, older DEC equipment requires it on, and older AT&T hubs want it off. Generally I keep it off; it's a useless wast of bandwidth that harkens back to the time before SNMP and when ethernet transceivers were these lumpy things bolted onto big orange cables at the end of a 10 to 30 foot AUI cable. Lot of stuff to go wrong. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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