"Transmit timed out" error. Bad hardware?

[Mark Hagger]

This one did mystify me a bit, but the rational that I came to was that the
underlying system was not able to feed information to the card/driver fast
enough to cause any problems.  Later kernels that presumably started to
optimise this area then started to show problems.

Well, that's my guess anyway.

Mark


On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, David St. John wrote:
> Just to follow up, installing version 1.09t of Donald's driver did the
> trick.  Everything is back to normal.  Thanks to all who suggested I try
> that (and thanks to Donald for writing it!).
> 
> Out of curiosity, this card worked great for 18 months with the original
> driver (which came with Redhat 5.1, v0.36 I think), without reporting any
> error messages.  There were no changes to the system.  That's why I
> suspected a hardware fault.  Anyone know why I would start getting "tx
> timeout" errors all of a sudden?
> --
> David St. John
> Call of the Wind
> http://www.windcall.com/
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