Re: [PATCH] Fealnx. Mac address and other issues

From: Denis Vlasenko
Date: Sat Apr 24 2004 - 13:32:02 EST


On Friday 23 April 2004 03:05, SuD (Alex) wrote:
>...
> By the way, i get some Watchdog Timeouts while transmitting every 10
> minutes or so (also with 2.4 and original drivers).
> This is what i get:
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> eth0: Transmit timed out, status 00000000, resetting...
> Rx ring cf674000: 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000
> 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000
> Tx ring cf675000: 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000 0000

Hi Alex,

We were working on this recently.
Jeff Garzik just applied patches (to 2.6) which may fix timeout problem.

> I have also recently experienced problems with my cablemodem Motorola
> SB5100e. It has registered this mac address:
> D4:62:00:02:44:1F
> which does not exist but is a mixture of my surecom card (fealnx)
> 00:02:44:1F:5F:59 and the network gateway 00:05:00:E2:D4:62.
> I am not sure who's fault this is (i would not trust my cablemodem much
> anyway).

Unfortunately, I do not have this hardware, but hope to
get it back from a friend soon. Will try to reproduce.

If I don't email you in a week, feel free to remind me.
--
vda

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