Subject: Re: gem driver now [kind of] works on G4 macs
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org>
List: current-users
Date: 05/11/2002 15:14:31
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Matt Thomas wrote:
> At this time, I think macppc should switch to gem and move gm into the
> Attic.

It seems to be working well for me on my PowerMac G4 Gigabit ethernet
(connected to a 100BaseTX switch), except I occasionally got these
messages while running build.sh with /usr/src on an NFS filesystem:

May 11 06:00:20 greyfox syslogd: restart
May 11 06:00:53 greyfox /netbsd: gem0: MAC rx fault, status 5
May 11 06:04:31 greyfox /netbsd: gem0: MAC rx fault, status 5
May 11 06:14:57 greyfox ntpd[171]: time reset 0.833157 s
May 11 06:14:57 greyfox ntpd[171]: synchronisation lost
May 11 06:20:01 greyfox /netbsd: gem0: MAC rx fault, status 5
May 11 06:42:56 greyfox /netbsd: gem0: MAC rx fault, status 5
May 11 07:13:23 greyfox last message repeated 3 times
May 11 07:45:07 greyfox /netbsd: gem0: MAC rx fault, status 5
May 11 07:59:26 greyfox /netbsd: gem0: MAC rx fault, status 5
May 11 08:18:52 greyfox /netbsd: gem0: MAC rx fault, status 5
May 11 08:30:24 greyfox /netbsd: gem0: MAC rx fault, status 5
May 11 08:44:59 greyfox /netbsd: gem0: MAC rx fault, status 5
May 11 08:58:59 greyfox /netbsd: gem0: MAC rx fault, status 5
May 11 09:13:23 greyfox /netbsd: gem0: MAC rx fault, status 5
May 11 09:25:01 greyfox last message repeated 2 times

What's status 5 mean?
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