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From: ramani@jhunix (Ramani Duraiswami)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Lance has lost TXON 63
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Date: 1 Oct 90 03:11:15 GMT
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Lance has lost TXON 63
Looking through the archives of comp.sys.mips I found the following
two messages posted a while back (the messages are appended to the end
of this article). Since we are having the same problem
i.e.
  "Lance has lost TXON 63"

I wanted to know how to fix it. This message is repeated about 50
times a day. Is this a hardware problem. My local unix guru thinks
that some thing is wrong with the Lance chip. 

We  have a small Mips network (2 machines an RC3240 with 32 MB and an
RS2030 with RISC windows), with ethernet just installed. The 3240 is
an upgraded M120/5, purchased in 1988, and was run as a standalone
machine. 
----------TEXT from COMP.SYS.MIPS archives--------------------
1)
Our console has on a couple of occasions reported the following error:

  "Lance has lost TXON 63"

What does this mean? Everything still seems to be working fine afterwards,
but we're that this might be leading up to something major. Any ideas?
-- 
Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst
Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121
UUCP: {uunet|watmath|utai|garfield}!cs.dal.ca!aucs!Peter
BITNET: Peter@Acadia  Internet: Peter@AcadiaU.CA

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In article <1990May25.113156.15375@aucs.uucp> peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) writes:
>Our console has on a couple of occasions reported the following error:
>
>  "Lance has lost TXON 63"
>
>What does this mean? Everything still seems to be working fine afterwards,
>but we're that this might be leading up to something major. Any ideas?
It means that, due to driver bugs, traffic, weird network conditions, etc.,
your LANCE ethernet chip found its TRANSMIT off.  Its response is to reset
itself, re-enable itself, and tell you it did it.  I'd worry about hundreds
of these a day; "a couple of occasions" is no problem at all.
-- 
rogerk@mips.COM         {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!mips!rogerk         "I'm the NLA"

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