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sseekamp@×××.net wrote: [Thu Sep 18 2003, 11:00:27AM EDT] |
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> It came down to plain old bad hardware - I tested out a few other |
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> cards in the alpha and they all showed up in SRM as Ethernet cards. I |
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> returned the D-Link that was not working and got another one - now I |
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> am up and working! |
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> I still would like to have the DEC cards working in case I want to |
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> experiment with net booting. The errors I get are ierrs in Freebsd and |
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> receive errors in linux (sometimes other strange errors as well). I am |
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> guessing it is just old hardware unless you have a suggestion. |
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It's possible you're getting a configuration conflict between the |
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network adapters and the switch/hub. If one is in full-duplex mode and |
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the other is in half-duplex, you'd get very poor traffic flow and lots |
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of errors reported on the device. |
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You might try using mii-tool and/or mii-diag to investigate further. |
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Depending on the revision of the adapters (are they DE4xx or DE5xx?) |
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they may also have broken auto-negotiation, in which case you'll want to |
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manually set 10baseT. |
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Aron |
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