problem with 3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL
Hi Guys, I have several 3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL NIC's but they work very bad with 7.0 and 6.2. The problem appears when I have more than 50 Mb through the network interface. Then the card restarts maybe the driver restart it I am not sure. dmesg shows me something like: xl0: transmission error: 90 xl0: tx underrun, increasing tx start threshold to 120 bytes xl0: link state changed to DOWN xl0: link state changed to UP xl0: link state changed to DOWN xl0: link state changed to UP xl0: link state changed to DOWN xl0: link state changed to UP xl0: link state changed to DOWN xl0: link state changed to UP xl0: watchdog timeout xl0: link state changed to DOWN xl0: link state changed to UP What do you think maybe this NIC is buggy or I have to change something? dmesg - xl0: 3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL port 0xec00-0xec7f mem 0xe700-0xe700 007f irq 10 at device 12.0 on pci0 uname -a - FreeBSD free.bsd-bg.net 7.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 #0: Fri Oct 26 00:24:20 EEST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/ad0s1/system/obj/mnt/ad0s1/system/src/sys/MOON_7 i386 P.S. I've seen the same with all my cards and xl driver. Thanks in advance -- Best Regards eng. Anatoli Marinov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: problem with 3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of eng. Anatoli Marinov Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 12:41 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: problem with 3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL Hi Guys, I have several 3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL NIC's but they work very bad with 7.0 and 6.2. Those cards and the xl driver are crap, hae been ever since the driver first appeared in FreeBSD. Occasionally someone diddles with the driver trying to make it work better without any real success. 3com appears completely uninterested in helping. I can buy Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 cards out of the junk bin from the local computer recycler for $3 a card. I'm sure if you look you can find a similar thing, and that's what you need to do rather than put time and effort into a card/driver combo that has never worked very well under FreeBSD. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
