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From: rxxgap@minyos.xx.rmit.oz (Greg Price)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: Re: Ethernet problems with UMAX 4.3
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Message-ID: <5615@minyos.xx.rmit.oz>
Date: 12 Sep 90 06:59:22 GMT
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Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.
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clyde@emx.utexas.edu (Clyde W. Hoover) writes:

>I've been seeing these messages:
>	Ethernet en_context, lamp = 0, slot = X, sts = 55

>And our Ethernet controllers stop working.  I'm running (after the
>Upgrade Week From Hell), UMAX 4.3.

I'm running UMAX 2.2m and have the same type of symptoms.... This was very
prevalent during one of our two busy times (mid year), the problem only shows
up once every week or so now. We were unable to directly link it to any
usage (eg network load, uptime, etc). The two messages we get are the
Ethernet en_context, lamp = 0, slot = x,  sts = y (y being the appropriate
SV errno indicating lack of memory) and
EN - no command packets available.

We were advised by Encore to increase the ethernet params in /etc/system, but
it still happened. Sometimes we can restart the ethernet by manually using
the /etc/init.d procedures (saving a reboot), othertimes a reboot is needed
because the ethernet memory wasn't released by the ifconfig. It sounds like
the same sort of thing..... with any luck 2.4 will cure that and many other
problems!

Greg
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