Subject: Re: tlp errors
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Ray Phillips <r.phillips@jkmrc.uq.edu.au>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/19/2002 17:18:27
> > > > tlp0: receive error: MII error
> > > > tlp0: receive error: dribbling bit
> > > > tlp0: receive error: CRC error
> > >
> > > This is the classic sympton of a duplex mismatch. Make sure your tlp
> > > is in half-duplex mode.
> >
> > If it has an MII to have errors on, can't its PHY do Nway correctly?
>
>"MII error" is the name of the bit, but it's really "media error".
>
>The chip in question is a 21040, which doesn't do NWAY.
>
Does that mean it's best to use de in preference to tlp for the time
being when the NIC uses the 21040?
Ray