Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jul 1997 14:55:49 +0300 | From | Petri Kaukasoina <> | Subject | Re: pre-patch-2.0.31-2 and 3c509 |
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On Thu, Jul 10, 1997 at 06:56:55AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > I'm beating my P133 w/ 3c509 to death on a news server, and getting > this... > > Waiting for 3c509 to discard packet, status 2001. > Waiting for 3c509 to discard packet, status 2011. > Waiting for 3c509 to discard packet, status 2001.
There is a fix for that in http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/3c509.html
The fix is this:
--- linux/drivers/net/3c509.c.orig Wed Oct 30 03:42:40 1996 +++ linux/drivers/net/3c509.c Wed Mar 19 13:26:39 1997 @@ -682,8 +682,9 @@ printk("%s: Couldn't allocate a sk_buff of size %d.\n", dev->name, pkt_len); } - lp->stats.rx_dropped++; outw(RxDiscard, ioaddr + EL3_CMD); + lp->stats.rx_dropped++; + SLOW_DOWN_IO; while (inw(ioaddr + EL3_STATUS) & 0x1000) printk(" Waiting for 3c509 to discard packet, status %x.\n", inw(ioaddr + EL3_STATUS) );
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