[tulip] xircom rbem56g100 tx packet carrier errors

[Keith Owens]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2000 12:11:38 +0200 (CEST), 
Stefan Kluth <skluth@mppmu.mpg.de> wrote:
>  I recently got an upgraded network connection to 100baseT.
>  Now I get 100% TX packets carries errors, i.e. there is an
>  carrier error for every TX packet. Here is the output of
>  ifconfig (I blanked my addresses):
>
>  lapkluth:/home/skluth# ifconfig
>  eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr  
>            inet addr: Bcast:  Mask:255.255.255.0
>            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:20679 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:8 errors:3185 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:3185
>            collisions:0 

Probably an error in recording the statistics, either putting the
counter in the wrong place or ifconfig is extracting the data
incorrectly.  I saw the same symptoms on a 100baseT network with that
card, but was getting reasonable response so I ignored the stats.

# /sbin/ifconfig -V
net-tools 1.51
ifconfig 1.39 (1999-03-18)