Messages in this thread | | | From | Alon <> | Date | Sat, 22 Mar 2003 00:20:09 +0100 | Subject | VIA Rhine timeouts |
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Hi,
I am suffering from what a quick Google search has shown to be the infamous netdev watchdog lock in Rhine NICs,a although in a somwhat different way from most cases I've seen reported. Instead of failing under heavy load, my card (in fact, an onboard chip in the ECS L7VTA-L motherboard) completely refuses to make a connection under 2.4.x kernels. I tried all releases between 2.4.18 and current 2.4.21-pre5 to no avail. The driver provided by VIA at their site fared no better.
I include below a snippet of the syslog (debug=7)when trying to connect to a DHCP server. I also have a TCP dump of the dialog, if it's of any use (the messages about promiscuous mode are caused by tcpdump, I believe).
..(lots of snipped stuff)... Mar 21 23:45:52 taragui kernel: via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.16 February-15-2003 Written by Donald Becker Mar 21 23:45:52 taragui kernel: http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html Mar 21 23:45:52 taragui kernel: via-rhine: Reset succeeded. Mar 21 23:45:52 taragui kernel: eth0: VIA VT6102 Rhine-II at 0xe400, 00:0a:e6:31:e8:7b, IRQ 16. Mar 21 23:45:52 taragui kernel: eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 01e1 Link 0021. Mar 21 23:46:37 taragui dhclient: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1rc9 Mar 21 23:46:37 taragui dhclient: Copyright 1995-2001 Internet Software Consortium. Mar 21 23:46:37 taragui dhclient: All rights reserved. Mar 21 23:46:37 taragui dhclient: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP Mar 21 23:46:37 taragui dhclient: Mar 21 23:46:37 taragui kernel: eth0: via_rhine_open() irq 16. Mar 21 23:46:37 taragui kernel: eth0: Reset succeeded. Mar 21 23:46:37 taragui kernel: eth0: Done via_rhine_open(), status 081a MII status: 786d. Mar 21 23:46:37 taragui kernel: eth0: VIA Rhine monitor tick, status 0000. Mar 21 23:46:38 taragui dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0a:e6:31:e8:7b Mar 21 23:46:38 taragui dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0a:e6:31:e8:7b Mar 21 23:46:38 taragui dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback Mar 21 23:46:39 taragui kernel: eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled. Mar 21 23:46:39 taragui kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode Mar 21 23:46:40 taragui dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 Mar 21 23:46:40 taragui kernel: eth0: Transmit frame #0 queued in slot 0. Mar 21 23:46:47 taragui dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 Mar 21 23:46:47 taragui kernel: eth0: Transmit frame #1 queued in slot 1. Mar 21 23:46:47 taragui kernel: eth0: VIA Rhine monitor tick, status 1003. Mar 21 23:46:57 taragui dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 Mar 21 23:46:57 taragui kernel: eth0: Transmit frame #2 queued in slot 2. Mar 21 23:46:57 taragui kernel: eth0: VIA Rhine monitor tick, status 1003. Mar 21 23:47:05 taragui dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14 (same as above for frames #3 to #9) Mar 21 23:47:58 taragui dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received. Mar 21 23:47:58 taragui dhclient: Trying recorded lease 212.183.239.144 Mar 21 23:48:01 taragui kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Mar 21 23:48:01 taragui kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out, status 1003, PHY status 786d, resetting... Mar 21 23:48:01 taragui kernel: eth0: Reset did not complete in 5 us. Trying harder. Mar 21 23:48:01 taragui kernel: eth0: Reset succeeded. Mar 21 23:48:08 taragui dhclient: No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
The weird thing is, it seems to work perfectly with Debian Woody's stock 2.2.20 idepci kernel. I'd be glad to stick to it for the time being, but I can't get support for most of the mobo's functionality (it sports a KT400/VT8235 combo) under any kernel earlier than 2.4.20.
TIA,
Alon
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