Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 5 Feb 1997 13:19:22 +0100 (MET) | From | Philippe Strauss <> | Subject | Re: PCI NE2000 clone |
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On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Trevor Johnson wrote:
> Jon Lewis wrote: > > > I got a bunch (few dozen over 8 hours) of these the other day on a P100 > > running 2.0.28 with a realtek PCI ne2k card during a backup/compare over > > the network to this system's DAT. The source comments around > > this printk make it sound like this isn't a very good thing to see. > > > > eth0: Tx timed out, cable problem? TSR=0x6, ISR=0x0, t=27. > > eth0: Tx timed out, cable problem? TSR=0x6, ISR=0x0, t=27. > > eth0: Tx timed out, cable problem? TSR=0x6, ISR=0x0, t=26. > > > > How bad are these errors, and should I start looking into putting a > > different ethernet card in...or are there bugs in the 2.0.28 ne2k support > > that have been fixed? > > > > Bus 0, device 18, function 0: > > Ethernet controller: Realtek 8029 (rev 0). > > Medium devsel. IRQ 9. > > I/O at 0x6100. > > I occasionally use a similar or identical card (sold as the SimpleNet > SN3200CT, looks the same in /proc/pci). The only problem I've had with it > has been in getting the plug-and-play BIOS to always give it the same IRQ. > I've heard about IRQ 9 supposedly being unreliable because of the way it's > chained to IRQ 2. Perhaps another interrupt would work better. It should > be easy to try anyway. > ___ > Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> >
I have a PCI realtek clone, only time i got the cable problem message was... when power on the hub was down.
Bus 0, device 15, function 0: Ethernet controller: Realtek 8029 (rev 0). Medium devsel. IRQ 11. I/O at 0xff80.
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