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