Messages in this thread | | | From | "Deian Chepishev" <> | Subject | 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado problems (no network sometimes) | Date | Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:53:23 +0200 |
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Hi all,
for about a year and a half i have problems with network cards 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado here is the description of the problem:
I have the following hardware:
MB EliteGroup P6ISAII with chipset Intel815 LAN CARD 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado CPU Intel PIII 733 and 933 Sound Embeded Video Intel815 Embeded
Log entries while loading driver 3c90x are:
Dec 19 16:03:35 oboroten kernel: 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html Dec 19 16:03:35 oboroten kernel: 01:03.0: at 0xc000. Vers LK1.1.18-ac
The tower is ATX. when i shut down the computer from the button and after start it the led which shows that nic is connected to 100Mb mode (I have leds for 10Mb, 100Mb,ACT) start blinking each second the same do and the led on the switch (the switch is 3COM office connect DualSpeedSwitch 16). and when linux boots i have no network at all. I have attached logs for notworking and working situation. In order to fix the problem i must unplug the power cord(there is no other way to copletely stop powering the computer) wait a few seconds plug it again and start the computer from the button and check to see if the led is blinking if yes reapeat this action as much times as is necessary for the led to stop blinking. The interesting part is that if the NIC is blinking and i load windows the things are working just fine i think that windows driver has some initialisation (the led stops blinking) which the linux driver does not have but these are just suppositions. Notice that i have some lines in the messages log "working situation" which looks like this:
Dec 30 12:52:01 oboroten kernel: eth0: vortex_error(), status=0xe081
this appears when i execute the following command:
ping -f some.host
i have running 4 machines with the same HW configuration and the problem is reproducable on all of them. I have noticed this problem since kernel 2.4.2 and it is here by now. on the machine that i use for testing these things i have kernel: Linux xxxx.xxxxx.xxxxx 2.4.18-19.8.0 #1 Thu Dec 12 05:39:29 EST 2002 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
but I have and machines with 2.4.19 which has the same problem. I have this problem often when we have power failure and my boss is not very happy the servers to be down when i am not in the office after power failure. I have executed and the diagnostic programs mii-diag and vortex-diag their logs are attached to the mail too.
Best Regards,
Deian Chepishev [unhandled content-type:application/octet-stream][unhandled content-type:application/octet-stream][unhandled content-type:application/octet-stream][unhandled content-type:application/octet-stream][unhandled content-type:application/octet-stream][unhandled content-type:application/octet-stream] | |