-- Luke B. Bishop, Senior Software Engineer, Nanosoft Technologies, Inc., http://nanosoft.hypermart.net/ "Software For The Real World"
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On Sat, 13 May 2000, Luke B. Bishop wrote:
> To: linux-realtek@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov > Subject: VIA Rhine Driver Bug > > I think this is the right place to post this, please excuse me if I'm > misdirected.
Well, not exactly. But the proper list depends on too many factors.
> I have some sort of an Acer network card with a VIA Rhine chip on it. > lspci identifies it as follows: > > 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT86C100A [Rhine > 10/100] (rev 06) ... > I'm currently using it quite happily on kernel 2.3.38, which detects it > as follows (during boot): > > via-rhine.c:v1.01 2/27/99 Written by Donald Becker > http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/via-rhine.html
That's a slightly older version, but there have been only two minor updates since.
> However, when I try to use any more recent kernel, I get the following > (during boot): > > via-rhine.c:v1.01 2/27/99 Written by Donald Becker > http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/via-rhine.html > eth0: VIA VT3043 Rhine at 0xc800, 00:60:67:44:55:c6, IRQ 18. > eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7809 advertising 05e1 Link > 0000. > > And the following error immediately when the first network interaction > is attempted: > eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, entry 0x1 > length 0 status 00000000! > eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame cf74a010 vs > cf74a010.
This was a bug introduced by unchecked changes being put into the driver. You should report this on linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu.
Donald Becker becker@scyld.com Scyld Computing Corporation 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Annapolis MD 21403
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