[vortex-bug] 3c575 PCMCIA card + samba causes to RX errors

[Donald Becker]

On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Dima wrote:

> I have Mandrake Linux v. 7.2. (kernel 2.2.17) installed on IBM ThinkPad 600x
> computer with3COM 3CXFE575BT 10/100 MBit card. Everything is perfect, but
> when I am trying to mountremote SMBFS disks using mount -t smbfs (I have
> samba-client v .2.0.7) and copy files from them, ifconfig shows a lot of RX
> errors (doesn't matter if I am connecting to Samba or Win2K server). I tried

What type of Rx errors?

My first reaction is now "don't force full duplex".
Send us the output of 'mii-diag' or 'vortex-diag -m'.


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