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From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Lance query
Message-ID: <1992Oct10.051708.4084@spcvxb.spc.edu>
Date: 10 Oct 92 09:17:08 GMT
References: <12764.9210021637@thor.cf.ac.uk> <718075048snx@crynwr.com> <BvvDAt.ItC@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
Organization: St. Peter's College, US
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In article <BvvDAt.ItC@flatlin.ka.sub.org>, bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) writes:
> Well, according to SunOS 4.0.somethings le(4S):
> 
>   lr%d: transmitter frozen - resetting
> 	A bug in the LANCE chip has stopped the chip's transmitter
> 	section. The driver has detected this condition and
> 	reinitialized the chip.
> 
> The next to pages list a lot additonal anomalies (:-)) of the chip.

  This seems to no longer be present in 4.1.1. Perhaps Sun discovered that
they mis-read the data sheet?

	Terry Kennedy		Operations Manager, Academic Computing
	terry@spcvxa.bitnet	St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
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