Technical data

SunOS 5.5 Devices riles(7D)
riles%d: serious NIC error (RST set)
The reset bit was set in the network interface controller’s interrupt status register.
riles%d: board in slot %d failed-- resetting
The ES-3210 hardware has failed and is beingreset in an attempt to bring it up.
riles%d: lost carrier (cable or transceiver problem?)
This indicates that the transceiver/cable is faulty or improperly connected to the
board.
riles%d: packet received in error (dropped)
The ES-3210 received a bad frame that had to be dropped by the driver.
riles%d: transmit retry count exceeded
The driver’s attempts to transmit a packet on the network exceeded the max-
imum number of retry attempts (usually 5).
WARNINGS The driver does not program the chip to receive bad packets. Thus the statistics of bad
input frames on a riles network interface displayed by netstat(1M) is incorrect since it
does not take into account the number of bad packets that were discarded by the board’s
network interface controller.
The riles protected mode driver does not support I/O-mapped I/O. Hence, the driver
will not work with the default configuration of the board; that is, with shared memory
disabled. To get around this, you should explicitly choose a memory area for the board at
configuration time.
The driver does not useDMA channels0 through 3, since 32-bit burst modeDMA
transfers cannot be accomplished on these channels. Therefore, the driver forcibly uses
memory-mapped I/O even when one of theDMA channels 0 through 3 are configured.
modified 5 May 1995 7D-279