>
> Running a Dlink quad card (570TX) in 100Mb/s full dup mode the driver
> complains about underruns for awhile and then ultimately sets
> store_and_forward which seems to make it work.
>
> Is there a way to force this easily? It seems that it should certainly be
> the default if full dup 100 mode is detected as the other settings fail
> quite easily on rather trivial activities.
>
> should this card be used with the if_dc or if_de driver? Both seem to probe
> it successfully, although both drivers have the same (annoying) underrun
> problem (that wasnt a problem or at least not screen-verbalized in 3.4).
Transmit underrun is usually caused by another peripheral hogging the PCI
bus; either a poorly configured card with an excessive latency value, or
a misconfigured card (due to BIOS bugs), or a card that otherwise ignores
the PCI latency rules, or a system with too many busy busmaster cards.
> Dennis
> Emerging Technologies, Inc.
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