Re: 2.3.31 and EtherExpress transmit timeout

Terry Hardie (terryh@orcas.net)
Mon, 13 Dec 1999 09:16:15 -0500 (EST)


On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, [iso-8859-1] Magnus Näslund(gr) wrote:

> >I'm having a problem under 2.3.31 that doesn't appear to be hardware
> >(since I don't get the following kernel messages under 2.2.13ac3) and
> >doesn't hang for 2-5 seconds at a time when it does.
>
> I had this problem on a digital workstation that had a dec2114x ethernet
> card (tulip.o) on the motherboard...
> When i loaded the tulip driver suddenly i got alot of "Resetting
> transmitter" errors on the
> other cards (all ethernet express 100).
> It was kinda strange. I quickfixed it by shutting off the tulip card in bios
> and just inserted an additional eepro100 :)

I, unfortunately, can't do that. All the slot on the mother board are
used, that's the whole reason I got an on board adapter. I'm fairly sure
there's nothing wrong with the hardware, since it works fine under
2.2.13ac3 and previous 2.2 kernels.

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