Re: kern/38021: Tulip NIC "dribbling bit" and "CRC error"

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/38021; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
        netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/38021: Tulip NIC "dribbling bit" and "CRC error"
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:26:28 +0000

 On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 07:25:00PM +0000, richw%richw.org@localhost wrote:
  > On a new NetBSD 4.0 box with a Tulip NIC, I saw a burst of errors
  > saying "tlp0: receive error: dribbling bit" and "tlp0: receive
  > error: CRC error".
 
 Is your cabling ok? I see these messages from time to time, but
 they're caused (in my case) by running 100baseTX over a piece of
 pre-cat5 cable and not, I think, a driver bug.
 
 But then, every #$!4#@ tulip card is different...
 
  > This problem seems to have been around for a very long time (and a
  > fix was proposed long ago), but apparently the proposed fix either
  > created its own problems or was simply overlooked.  Take a look
  > here:
  > 
  > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-bugs/2000/05/25/0000.html
 
 http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=10198
 
 According to the PR database, a similar patch got applied right away,
 so this is probably not the issue.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost