At 04:49 PM 5/14/2000 -0500, Donald Lee wrote:
>In our last episode....
>
> >Rod Morehead <rmore@rmore.net> reports that:
> >Asante Mac DEC based 10/100 PCI Rev A. part number is 09-00169-01 works in
> >-current (de)
>
>I doesn't look like it works very well in 1.4.2.
>
>I called Asante, and asked if I could swap out a "new" card for an old one.
>They said they would.  Now I have a real model 09-001690-01 Asante
>10/100 card, with a Digital chip on it.  It works
>OK, but I get *lots* of output errors when I try to use it.
>
>I'm running NetBSD 1.4.2 on a PowerCenter132.  Kernel is very slightly
>modified to do Appletalk routing correctly.
>
>Using ftp and Appleshare, I have tried moving data to another machine on
>the network.
>When moving data NetBSD -> elsehwere, it works great.
>When moving data elsewhere -> NetBSD, it's really, relly slow. (due to the
>errors, I presume)
>
>This is the ifconfig output:
>
> >charm$ ifconfig de0
> >de0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> >        media: Ethernet 100baseTX
> >        status: active
> >        inet 192.168.24.254 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.24.255
>
>
>The kernel messages look like this:
>
> >May 13 17:50:17 charm /netbsd: de0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0
> >May 13 17:50:17 charm /netbsd: de0: interrupting at irq 23
> >May 13 17:50:17 charm /netbsd: de0: Asante 21140A [10-100Mb/s] pass 2.2
> >May 13 17:50:17 charm /netbsd: de0: address 00:00:94:a0:bd:93
> >May 13 17:50:17 charm /netbsd: de0: enabling 10baseT port
> >May 13 17:53:56 charm /netbsd: de0: abnormal interrupt: transmit 
> underflow (raising TX threshold to 96|256)
> >May 13 17:53:57 charm /netbsd: de0: abnormal interrupt: transmit 
> underflow (raising TX threshold to 128|512)
> >May 13 17:53:57 charm /netbsd: de0: abnormal interrupt: transmit 
> underflow (raising TX threshold to 160|1024)
> >May 13 17:53:59 charm /netbsd: de0: abnormal interrupt: transmit 
> underflow (switching to store-and-forward mode)
>
>I've tried setting the media to 100baseTX, but it makes no
>difference.

You can ignore those.  because it went to store and forward.