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From: jan@encap.Hanse.DE (Jan-Oliver Neumann)
Subject: 'le0: transmitter disabled' with a NE2100.
Organization: Hanse Networking e.V., Hamburg
Message-ID: <LZ5WBKK@encap.Hanse.DE>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 13:32:12 GMT
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I have an old DOS box (386SX-16) with an Intel EtherExpress and my NetBSD-
machine running NetBSD/i386 1.0 (486DX-50, 16MB, ISA) with a Novell NE2100
configured at ioport 0x360, IRQ9 and DMA{ACK,CHN} 7.
When I try to ftp from the NetBSD-box I get 'le0: transmitter disabled'
messages, ip-traffic halts for a short while (the card is reset), and then
the traffic resumes. If I put something onto the NetBSD-box I get 'le0:
OFLO' messages. Of course, throughput is lousy in the first case as the
packet is thrown away and the card is reset.
If I run the i486 under DOS, I get acceptable performance. I increased
the number of transmit-buffers in if_lereg.h, but it had no effect.
What's wrong with the lance-driver ?
Thanks, Jan-Oliver
PS: Are there any plans to enhance the if_ie -driver to support the
Intel EtherExpress 16 ?
--
Jan-Oliver Neumann <jan@encap.Hanse.DE>
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a
"Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
-- Mahatma Ghandi