Messages in this thread | | | From | "Manfred Young" <> | Subject | Re: eepro100 frame errors with SMP | Date | Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:28:34 -0400 |
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These kind of symptoms are normally associated with NWAY negotiation problems. Early eepro100 cards used the National Semiconductor DP83840 PHY chip which is notoriously bad at negotiating. I suggest forcing the speed and duplex setting on both the Linux machine and the router.
----- Original Message ----- From: Alan Curry <pacman-kernel@cqc.com> To: <linux-eepro100@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov>; <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 1999 5:53 PM Subject: eepro100 frame errors with SMP
> Two different machines, each with an eepro100, are racking up frame errors, > according to the statistics on the cisco switch they are connected to. > Swapping cards between these and another machine, and booting many different > kernels, leads us to believe that the problem only exists when more than one > processor is being used. This smells like a driver bug to me. > > These errors show up as "TX overruns" from ifconfig on the Linux side and > frame/CRC errors from `show interfaces' on the cisco side. > > We told cisco, and they're so concerned about their switch they currently > have a team trying to reproduce the problem, but as far as we know they are > still in the "how do we install RedHat?" stage. > > What can I do to further track down this problem? > -- > Alan Curry >
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