New test verion of the eepro100.c available.

[Zivago 'Jaeman' Lee]

Donald,

I put in the new driver in our SMP system with 1 Intel NICs, and after 2
days, we get the same messages:

Jul 15 09:50:50 www19 kernel: eth0: Trying to restart the transmitter... 
Jul 15 09:50:55 www19 kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050  0090 at 54847948/54847961 command 000c0000. 

I will try removing the 2nd NIC to see if that might solve the problem.

Z

On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Donald Becker wrote:

> I have a new test version of the eepro100.c driver available from
>   ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/test/eepro100.c
> 
> This version has changes intended to recover the repeated cycle of "transmit
> timed out" messages.  It uses a "selective reset", which hopefully clears
> the opaque error condition which causes the problem.
> 
> It also has support for the larger serial EEPROM on the IBM i82559 board.
> 
> We now have an application (the PVFS parallel file system) on our cluster
> which can occasionally trigger this problem.  Curiously, it occurs on only
> a specific few of the nominally identical nodes(?!).
> 
> This driver updates doesn't attempt to fix the unknown problem.  Instead it
> preserves some information in the Tx status entries, and attempts to reset
> rather than just restarting the chip when the transmit problem does occur.
> 
> As usual, please send reports.
> 
> Donald Becker					  becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
> USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences.
> Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center,  Greenbelt, MD.  20771
> 301-286-0882	     http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/people/becker/whoiam.html
> 

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Zivago 'Jaeman' Lee
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