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Date:      Wed, 4 Nov 1998 22:49:32 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What do these mean?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811042248000.19324-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981104084721.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>

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On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote:

> 
> Doug Rabson, On 04-Nov-98 you wrote:
> >  On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote:
> >  
> > > Please save me the source hunting.  what do the following messages
> > > mean?
> > > The machine is connected to a 3Com Linkbuilder 9at 100MHz). Everything
> > > else
> > > on that hub is FreeBSD but on the Intel boards, excpet the other Alpha
> > > which has a built-in tulip.
> > > 
> > > de0: abnormal interrupt: transmit underflow (raising TX threshold to
> > > 96|256)
> > > de0: abnormal interrupt: transmit underflow (raising TX threshold to
> > > 128|512)
> > > de0: abnormal interrupt: transmit underflow (raising TX threshold to
> > > 160|1024)
> >  
> >  I get these all the time.  They are harmless but annoying.  The driver
> >  seems to set up the wrong values for one of my de cards and then realise
> >  its mistake later when it gets a few underflows.  I had this with NetBSD
> >  too so I haven't tried to debug it.
> 
> Never seen that in i386, but never managed to get this card working in 
> i386 machine.  BTW, what will the ifconfig arguments be when hooking up
> this card to a 10BaseT hub?  Autosense fails.

I'm not really sure.  Mine autosenses correctly for both 10baseT and
100baseT.  Maybe 'ifconfig de0 media 10baseT'.

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