Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 12 Oct 2000 01:22:59 +1100 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.0-test9 3c59x still problems |
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nbecker@fred.net wrote: > > After upgrade to > 2.4.0-test9 > 3c59x is still giving these messages: > > Oct 11 06:34:36 adglinux1 kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. > Oct 11 06:34:36 adglinux1 kernel: Flags; bus-master 1, full 1; dirty 10934497(1) current 10934513(1). > Oct 11 06:34:36 adglinux1 kernel: Transmit list 0f92d2f0 vs. cf92d210. > Oct 11 06:34:36 adglinux1 kernel: 0: @cf92d200 length 800005ea status 800005ea > ...
This indicates that the NIC was unable to transmit a packet for 0.4 seconds due to collisions.
This does happen very infrequently on very heavily loaded half-duplex LANs. You can increase the timeout period with the `watchdog' module parameter, as described in Documentation/networking/vortex.txt.
If the above doesn't match your situation, please send me a more complete description of the problem (see "Reporting and diagnosing problems" in vortex.txt).
This is the first report of this problem for either 2.2 or 2.4 in 3-4 weeks, so I suspect you have either an overloaded LAN or broken hardware. It _may_ be necessary to tweak the reset code if it's a Cyclone, but I doubt it. Please send me the report and we'll work it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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