Re: SMC EtherEZ problems

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 15 Oct 1998 16:33:56 +0100 (BST)


> I am using an SMC EtherEZ nic with this machine running linux
> 2.1.125, I have a few problems here. First of all the card is set to irq
> 10 and io 0x280 but ifconfig (from net-tools 1.46) reports it wrong

The chip is at 0x290. There is other logic at 0x280. So its telling the
truth in its own way

> Is it something I should ignore or Would that be the cause for the number
> of collisions I'm getting?

That isnt excessive for a busy lan. Unless you are seeing performance problems
I wouldnt be concerned

> Another question is why am I getting all this in the logs, and a lot of it
> too...
> TCPv4 bad checksum from 206.127.57.41:0595 to 130.113.68.80:0019,
> len=1208/1208/1228

Because people are sending you packets and sometimes they get corrupted
across the net. Production kernels dont log these, for debugging in devel
kernels its useful to have the info

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