transmit error causes network to hang

[Stauffer Walter]

Jason,

I had (and still have) exactly the same problems, with an IBM EtherJet
and also with on-board 82558B's. The problem appears with NT, Win95,
Win98, and even DOS, so Linux is hardly to blame ...

We have replaced the EtherJet's (with AMD). The on-board ones are
less fun:

I have 7 other machines with on-board 82558B NIC, identical Linux
installation (SuSE 6.2 out-of-the-box). Four of them work perfectly,
three suffer from the described problem. Trying different versions of
eepro100.c didn't change a thing, nor did playing with every BIOS
setting (power management, I/O timing). As mentioned, the problem
even persists across entirely different OS's ...

So I don't think it's purely a driver issue, but rather Intel selling
us different versions of the chip (or faulty ones).

Best regards,
Walter


>Hi,
>I have an IBM 300GL with an Etherjet adapter (which is actually an intel
>etherexpress 100B).  I have had intermittent problems with the card.  I am
>running RedHat 6.1, right out of the box, no changes.  I downloaded,
>compiled, and installed the latest eepro100 module.  When the machine
>first
>comes up, the interface is ok.  I then try to use the network (mount a smb
>share or ftp a file) and the network will suddenly freeze.  I look at a
>netstat -in and see that the
>packets received (RX-OK) is no longer incrementing and that the transmit
>error (TX-ERR) column has incremented by one.   Bear with me, I dont know
>a
>lot about networking.  I just happened to notice that everytime the
>network
>hangs, this TX-ERR value has increased.  If I ifconfig the interface down
>and up, the adapter is reset and begins working again.  After a while,
>though, the same thing will happen again.  Is there an option I should
>configure for the kernel module?  I have since installed 3com 905B and
>that
>seems to be working ok.  I've tried monitoring the link with the mii-diag
>program but I dont seem to get any info that would give me a clue as to
>what is going on.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks!
>Jason
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