Re: Lots of RX errors... ??? ...

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>Delete the dmfe driver and add another $10 PCI NIC.
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Good Point!  :-)

What is your favorite cheap NIC for a Linux box?



On 4/24/2003 1:25 PM, Donald Becker wrote:

>On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Jason Boerner wrote:
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>>I found out that Davicom does have a web site with a Linux driver for 
>>the DM9000 chip.  However, it was last updated on 2001/11/09.
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>The driver in the kernel derives from that source, but has been updated
>to newer APIs and to fix obvious bugs.  It hasn't been reworked to fix
>the structural problems.
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>>Does anyone have experience with this driver or know of an update?
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>I briefly tried to use the dmfe driver on a local server that had the
>chip on the motherboard, but the bugs were too severe for the hour or
>two that I spent on it.
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>>Hmmm...  Actually, how do I verify that the chip on this MB is a 9000 
>>and not something else?
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>You can use 'lspci -vn' or 'cat /proc/pci' to find this information.  (It
>is, based on your previous report.)
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>>This is for a low throughput home firewall box, so I would hate to swap 
>>out the MB just because of the bad built in NIC.
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>Delete the dmfe driver and add another $10 PCI NIC.
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