Re: Qube2 problems with recent release-5 kernel

Andy Ruhl <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Oct 2009 13:39:10 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.cobalt,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mips.devel
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On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Izumi Tsutsui <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Sep 30 18:00:06 taz-dmz /netbsd: tlp0: receive error: CRC error
>> Sep 30 18:00:06 taz-dmz /netbsd: tlp0: receive error: MII error
>  :
>> I tried tlp0 and tlp1 (primary and secondary) and both returned this error.
>
> This could be caused by bad cable or switches/NICs.
>
> I saw this messages when I connected Qube to a cheap vge(4)
> on i386 server running restorecd via cross cable, and they
> disappeared after I replaced it with fxp(4).

It was a bad cable.

The only thing that really didn't work was the dhcpd for whatever
reason. The rest of the machine worked and network I/O seemed
unaffected other than the messages.

The ex0 card is now working too, maybe it was more sensitive to the bad cable.

I feel like such a noob... Thanks Izumi.

Andy