Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Apr 1999 16:31:38 +0100 | From | Tony Hoyle <> | Subject | Ne2000 clone on 2.2.5ac6 |
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I have recently upgraded an old 486 to a less old Compaq prolinea w/16mb. One of the cards is an unmarked NE2000 clone (using a UL0020 chip, which I managed to find a setup program for).
This card worked fine on the 486 with a similar setup, but on the Compaq it sporadically generates errors:
Apr 21 14:34:40 betty kernel: eth1: timeout waiting for Tx RDC. Apr 21 14:34:52 betty kernel: eth1: timeout waiting for Tx RDC. Apr 21 14:34:55 betty kernel: eth1: timeout waiting for Tx RDC. Apr 21 14:35:00 betty kernel: eth1: unexpected TX-done interrupt, lasttx=20. Apr 21 14:35:01 betty kernel: eth1: next frame inconsistency, 0xa0 Apr 21 14:35:04 betty kernel: eth1: timeout waiting for Tx RDC. Apr 21 14:37:49 betty kernel: eth1: timeout waiting for Tx RDC. Apr 21 14:38:30 betty kernel: eth1: next frame inconsistency, 0xb3 Apr 21 14:38:31 betty kernel: eth1: timeout waiting for Tx RDC. Apr 21 14:38:47 betty kernel: eth1: mismatched read page pointers 4c vs 76. Apr 21 14:38:49 betty kernel: eth1: timeout waiting for Tx RDC. Apr 21 14:39:19 betty kernel: eth1: mismatched read page pointers 4c vs 74. Apr 21 14:39:24 betty kernel: eth1: timeout waiting for Tx RDC. Apr 21 15:19:19 betty kernel: eth1: timeout waiting for Tx RDC. Apr 21 15:37:39 betty kernel: eth1: timeout waiting for Tx RDC. Apr 21 15:41:40 betty kernel: eth1: mismatched read page pointers 4c vs 63. Apr 21 15:42:33 betty kernel: eth1: timeout waiting for Tx RDC. Apr 21 16:07:27 betty kernel: eth1: timeout waiting for Tx RDC. Apr 21 16:07:31 betty kernel: eth1: timeout waiting for Tx RDC. Apr 21 16:07:35 betty kernel: eth1: timeout waiting for Tx RDC.
The timeout errors are usually accompanied by NFS and/or FTP freezing. This happens on almost any large NFS/FTP transfer on the local network.
I tried changing the IRQ and that seemed to reduce the errors (the 'unexpected TX-done' is from before I did this). I also increased the timeout in ne.c to 100ms, but it still times out.
I suspect some kind of problem with that network card on a Compaq, and I wonder if anyone else has had similar problems and how have they solved them? (OK the obvious solution is to junk the NE2000 and get a better card but...)
Tony
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