gem0 frame error

Pyun YongHyeon pyunyh at gmail.com
Sat Jun 21 00:07:56 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:44:56AM -0700, Kage wrote:
 > 
 > Hi folks, I just decided to throw Freebsd on an old sunblade 100 I have lying
 > around here.  Install flew by, and I'm sitting here configuring it.  I bring
 > up gem0, and it's tossing me an error along the following:
 > 
 > gem0: discard frame w/o leading ethernet header (len 0 pkt len 0)
 > gem0: receive error: CRC error
 > 
 > And continuing.  Ifconfig lists the following for gem0 in the up state (some
 > names changed to protect the innocent ;]):
 > 
 > gem0:  glags8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
 > options=b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
 > ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
 > inet 168.xx.xx.xx netmask 0xfffffc00 broadcast 168.xx.xx.xx
 > media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP)
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^
It's rare to see 10baseT, half-duplex media.
Would you check link partner also agrees on resolved link
speed/duplex?

It would be even better if you can post dmesg output and
"devinfo -rv| grep oui" to see what PHY was attached.

 > status:  active
 > 
 > I'm pretty new to sun hardware specifics so I can't quite nail this down. 
 > I'm not actually sure where to begin other than possibly considering a new
 > driver?
 > 
 > Thanks.

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon


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