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

From: Rich Payne (rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org)
Date: Thu Jul 12 2001 - 04:33:32 PDT

  • Next message: Markus Lischka: "Re: [suse-axp] Transmit timed out errors on eepro100 (DS20E)"

    Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 07:33:32 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Rich Payne <rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org>
    Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0107120732330.30247-100000@talisman.mv.com>
    Subject: Re: [suse-axp] Transmit timed out errors on eepro100 (DS20E)
    

    Go to www.scyld.com and download the latest driver for the eepro100 (it
    was 1.13 last I knew) this will fix most of your Intel eepro problems. I
    still get the occosional Transmit timeout...but they are rare.

    --rdp

    On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, 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
    >
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    -- 
    Rich Payne
    rpayne@alphalinux.org			www.alphalinux.org
    



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