From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 22 0:41:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D1A737B417 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 00:41:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (win.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fAM8fMh79351; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:41:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <012201c17331$77518ef0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Scott Mitchell" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" References: <010b01c172d6$186032d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011121230655.B307@localhost> Subject: Re: Error on xl0 Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:41:20 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Scott writes: > At a guess, it means your Ethernet card ran out > of data to send partway through a packet. Sifting through the Net, I noticed mentions of this error in connection with SCSI interfaces, although I have nothing attached to my SCSI adapter at the moment. Apparently it is not a fatal error. > A lack of bandwidth somewhere in your system > could cause this kind of thing... were you generating > a lot of network traffic and hammering your > disk(s) at the same time with the fvwm compile? Maybe. Also, the LAN is 100 Mbps, but the connection to the outside world is a 10 Mbps Ethernet connection to a 1 Mbps DSL line--a 100-to-1 difference. I don't know if that would be significant. As long as it is recoverable, I guess it doesn't matter. What little I was able to dig up implied that it wasn't a hardware error, although it might be the result of a hardware limitation. > I believe from previous exchanges that you're running > a board with a VIA 686 southbridge -- these *are* known > to have issues with data corruption and sensitivity wrt > what's plugged in where on the PCI bus. According to the FAQ, some motherboard manufacturers have tweaked their BIOS to resolve sound-card issues in a way that conflicts with the chipset. Of the several solutions listed, that of replacing the drivers doesn't help much, because only Windows drivers are provided. If a driver problem can be fixed to resolve it, that would imply that some driver in FreeBSD needs to be changed to resolve the problem. However, I don't even know that I have any such problem. The symptoms are not described. I don't use the sound card at all, and in fact the machine has never made any noise, which implies to me that no sound-card support is installed. (How do I know if sound-card support is present?) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message