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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