Re: [suse-axp] Transmit timed out errors on eepro100 (DS20E)

From: Albert-Eugen Vetter (Vetter@FuH.de)
Date: Thu Jul 12 2001 - 03:05:45 PDT

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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:05:45 +0200
From: Albert-Eugen Vetter <Vetter@FuH.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-axp] Transmit timed out errors on eepro100 (DS20E)

    Markus Lischka wrote:
    >
    > We are consistently seeing network time out errors on our DS20:
    >
    > Jul 12 08:52:25 born kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050 0c00 at 102307/102367 command 000c0000.
    > Jul 12 09:00:05 born kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050 0c00 at 116120/116180 command 000c0000.
    > Jul 12 09:02:06 born kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050 0c00 at 116253/116313 command 000c0000.
    >
    > This happens with a stock SuSE 7.1 installation for both Kernels 2.2.19
    > and 2.4.4. The card starts up fine:
    >
    > Jul 11 09:48:39 born kernel: eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
    > Jul 11 09:48:39 born kernel: eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.20.2.10 $ 2000/05/31 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg> and others
    > Jul 11 09:48:39 born kernel: eepro100.c: VA Linux custom, Dragan Stancevic <visitor@valinux.com> 2000/11/15
    > Jul 11 09:48:39 born kernel: eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:50:8B:AE:65:55, IRQ 39.
    > Jul 11 09:48:39 born kernel: Board assembly 726837-016, Physical connectors present: RJ45
    > Jul 11 09:48:39 born kernel: Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
    > Jul 11 09:48:39 born kernel: General self-test: passed.
    > Jul 11 09:48:39 born kernel: Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
    > Jul 11 09:48:39 born kernel: Internal registers self-test: passed.
    > Jul 11 09:48:39 born kernel: ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
    >
    > Receiving is fine, transmission is a nightmare. Any transfer > 500 KB
    > immediately throws an error:
    >
    > RX packets:249784 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    > TX packets:158868 errors:3480 dropped:0 overruns:81 carrier:0
    > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
    > Interrupt:39 Base address:0x2000
    >
    > Has anyone else seen this before? I just can't believe we're the first to
    > actually test SuSE 7.1/AXP on a DS20E :-(
    >
    > Many thanks,
    > Markus

    On INTEL-Plattforms we got a load of trouble with the modul eepro100.o.
    Try the modul e100.o. 

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