Re: NETDEV timeout on tulips [was: Re: 2.4.1-test10]

From: Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@zmailer.org)
Date: Tue Jan 23 2001 - 05:56:36 EST


On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:48:16AM +0000, David Ford wrote:
> The three cardbus cards are slightly different in numerous ways. For
> them they normally fault with an APM event, an eject/insert cycle via
> software will reset hem and a link down/up won't fix it. For the PCI
> cards most times a link down/up cycle will fix them. It's a 2.4 v.s. 2.2
> issue, the 2.2 kernels aren't exhibiting this error.

        I see that with my AT2800TX cardbus card as well.
        (Using Tulip driver, no less.)

> The PCI cards are hard to get into this state, sometimes they'll run
> millions of packets for months on end before they'll burp. Sometimes
> it'll happen three times a night. The amount of traffic doesn't seem
> to matter, nor does the type of traffic.

        Sounds like timing issue.

> -d

/Matti Aarnio
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