Subject: Re: vr0 transmit aborted on arm32/1.4.2_ALPHA
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Rob Windsor <windsor@warthog.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/27/2000 15:18:51
Verily did Jason Thorpe write:

>>> 	vr0: transmit aborted

>>> what to do about this? the i386 never gets it.

>> I bought two identical D-LINK cards (DFE-530TX) with the vr chipset.  One 
>> works just happily in the Dell Pentium-100, the other one goes bonkers with
>> the above error in my PCI 486/100.

> Um... a 486 PCI chipset, eh?  Those are famous for being broken.  Not only
> that, but they also typically only have one PCI slot capable of doing DMA
> (USELESS!)

Yeah, but I only need DMA on one PCI slot -- the one with the vr card in it.

(no, I'm not using any other pci slots)

-- Rob
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