2.3.99-pre6: Initial error with 3Com 3C905 NIC

From: Steve Snyder (swsnyder@home.com)
Date: Thu Apr 27 2000 - 09:09:30 EST


I've got a minor problem with 2.3.99-pre6 and my 3Com 3C905 (not
905B or 905C) NIC. I've had no problem with 2.3.99-pre5.

The driver is built into the kernel on an i686 box that, except for
the kernel, is pure RedHat v6.2. This is the recognition of the NIC
at boot time:

3c59x.c:v0.99L+LK1.1.2+AKPM 24 Apr 2000 Donald Becker and others http://cesdi
s.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
eth0: 3Com PCI 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0x6100, 00:60:08:a3:6c:94, IRQ 11
  8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/MII interface.
  MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786f.
  Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.

Then, at the end of the boot sequence:

Adding Swap: 131032k swap-space (priority -1)
eth0: first avaialble mdeia type: MII
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000.
  Flags; bus-master 1, full 1; dirty 0 current 16.
  Transmit list 011ef200 vs. c11ef200.
  0: @c11ef200 length 8000002a status 0000002a
  1: @c11ef210 length 8000002a status 0000002a
  2: @c11ef220 length 8000002a status 0000002a
  3: @c11ef230 length 8000006e status 0000006e
  4: @c11ef240 length 8000006e status 0000006e
  5: @c11ef250 length 8000006e status 0000006e
  6: @c11ef260 length 8000006e status 0000006e
  7: @c11ef270 length 8000006e status 0000006e
  8: @c11ef280 length 8000010b status 0000010b
  9: @c11ef290 length 8000002a status 0000002a
  10: @c11ef2a0 length 8000002a status 0000002a
  11: @c11ef2b0 length 8000006e status 0000006e
  12: @c11ef2c0 length 8000006e status 0000006e
  13: @c11ef2d0 length 8000006e status 0000006e
  14: @c11ef2e0 length 8000006e status 8000006e
  15: @c11ef2f0 length 8000006e status 8000006e
eth0: Resetting the Tx ring pointer.

The NIC has apparently been working fine for the last 24 hours. So
far it seems that the problem is limited to this single error at boot
time. FYI.

Thank you.

*** Steve Snyder ***

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