Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:16:19 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Still problems with PCCARD NICs Message-ID: <20030113201619.90C9B5D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:24:14 %2B1030." <20030113005414.GF1120@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:24:14 +1030 > From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG > > I haven't done much with PCCARD on -CURRENT lately. Last time I > tried, a couple of months ago, I got repeated freezes on the two 100 > Mb/s NICs I have. I've just built a kernel as of about 30 hours ago, > and I find: > > 1. Xircom RealPort RE-100 (xe driver). > > Comes up with unidentified media. Doesn't react to dhclient. > Won't let me set the mediaopt. I have to first set a valid IP > address, after which it comes up as 100baseTX. I can't find a way > to set full-duplex, but maybe the card doesn't support it. > > I tried to tar an NFS-mounted file system to see how fast it went: > > tar cf /dev/null /src > > Almost immediately, I got these messages, repeated frequently: > > Jan 13 10:57:29 sydney kernel: xe0: discard oversize frame (ether type 800 flags 3 len 1518 > max 1514) > Jan 13 10:58:13 sydney kernel: xe0: discard oversize frame (ether type 800 flags 3 len 1518 > max 1514) > > I checked at the other end and confirmed that the frames were in > fact 1514 bytes long. Odd. I've been running RC2 for a few days using an RE-100 with no problems. Is it possible that the frames are getting 802.1Q tags (4 bytes) added to them? R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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