Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 May 2002 17:34:53 +0200 | From | "Ronny T. Lampert (EED)" <> | Subject | 3c59x driver: card not responding after a while |
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Hello,
I'm having (reproducable) problems with the 3c59x driver; after a while (depends on card/traffic), the card doesn't send nor receive anymore.
I had 3c905B and 3c905C series, both affected. I did also change mainboard-slots. My current card is identifying as: 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink] (rev 74) Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C905C-TX Fast Etherlink for PC Management NIC Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 I/O ports at e800 [size=128] Memory at ed000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128] Expansion ROM at ec000000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Kernels were o RH 7.2 stock (2.4.7) o 2.4.17 (custom, driver builtin) (after a while) o 2.4.18 (custom, driver builtin) (depending on traffic, last time: [ifconfig output after the device is frozen] RX packets:249782 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:94 frame:0 TX packets:32712 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:49988234 (47.6 Mb) TX bytes:8716361 (8.3 Mb)
2.2.19 worked fine. gcc -v is gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98) (std from RH 7.2; no 'kgcc' available) I saw no changes in 2.4.19*, so I went out asking you :)
Machine is a K6-2 500 via a VIA MVP3 chipset, Shuttle mainboard (if that matters).
If you do a /etc/init.d/network restart (or ifconfig eth0 down ; ifconfig eth0 ... up), the card works again. dmesg is not reporting anything. I also did force the card to using fixed 100BaseTx-FD, didn't change anything.
If you need further information or more testing please say so. Please also include me on CC. Thanks. -- Ronny T. Lampert email: Ronny.Lampert@eed.ericsson.se System Administrator voice: +49 911 255 1214 Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland fax: +49 911 255 1960 Nuernberg, Germany - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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