Re: ne2k-pci problem with 2.0.36 - eth0: timeout waiting for Tx RDC.

Matt Aubury (mpa@comlab.ox.ac.uk)
Fri, 1 Jan 1999 12:06:31 +0000 (GMT)

> The network card is a NE2000 PCI and works great when using Windoze98 in
> linux it does not work at all and it keeps crying "eth0: timeout waiting
> for Tx RDC." about 1 time in 2 seconds.... The driver is compiled into the
> kernel...
> The same netcard works perfect with 2.0.34 on the same machine ...!!??@!?!?@

[snip]

> ne2k-pci.c:v0.99L 2/7/98 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ne2k-pci.html
> ne2l-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'Via 82C926' at I/O 0xe400, IRQ 9.
> eth0: PCI NE2000 found at 0xe400, IRQ 9, 08:00:31:00:38:C9

I had the same problem with a similar clone (I was about to replace
the card, which after all had cost less than the cable which connects
it to the wall). I fixed it (after some fiddling around) simply by
undef'ing USE_LONGIO in drivers/net/ne2k-pci.c.

This almost certainly isn't the right thing to do; but it worked and I
forgot about it -- I know I should have reported this before!

Cheers,
Matt Aubury

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