From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 29 5:56:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AA3337B43E for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 05:56:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8TCu2e07195; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:56:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: errors -tx underrun References: <000001c02947$b694dd40$0200a8c0@rivrw1.nsw.optushome.com.au> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 29 Sep 2000 08:56:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: rnera@optushome.com.au's message of "28 Sep 2000 13:30:45 +0200" Message-ID: <44og171hni.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG rnera@optushome.com.au (Ryan Nera) writes: > I've changed the nic on my gateway it used to be a realtek based card - rl0 > 10/100M 8139 chipset to compex fl100tx it has a dec chip on it but gets > detected as an intel based 21141 card its also 10/100 it uses the dc0 driver > > Now I get a message saying TX underrun -increasing TX threshold.. what does > this mean... It means the card ran out of data in the middle of a packet, so the driver increased the point where the card would generate an interrupt asking for more data. This is not necessarily a problem. > My download speeds have dropped considerable since... *Probably* not related. Substantial details (including your definition of "considerable" are needed to diagnose this. Check out Greg Lehey's "How to get the best results from FreeBSD-questions" (http://www.lemis.com/questions.html). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message