[eepro100] Need help correcting the following error

Bruce Ferrell bferrell@microdisplay.com
Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:43:11 -0700


I'm running RedHat 6.2 2.2.14 kernel.  driver module is:

eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.18 $ 1999/12/29 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin
<saw@msu.ru>

eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050  0000 at 2519523/2519551 command
000c0000

and I get the following ring dump:

eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050  0000 at 2890650/2890678 command
000c0000.
eth0: Tx ring dump,  Tx queue 2890678 / 2890650:
eth0:     0 200ca000.
eth0:     1 000ca000.
eth0:     2 000ca000.
eth0:     3 000ca000.
eth0:     4 000ca000.
eth0:     5 000ca000.
eth0:     6 000ca000.
eth0:     7 000ca000.
eth0:     8 200ca000.
eth0:     9 000ca000.
eth0:    10 000ca000.
eth0:    11 000ca000.
eth0:    12 000ca000.
eth0:    13 000ca000.
eth0:    14 000ca000.
eth0:    15 000ca000.
eth0:    16 200ca000.
eth0:    17 000ca000.
eth0:    18 000ca000.
eth0:    19 000ca000.
eth0:    20 000ca000.
eth0:    21 400ca000.
eth0:   =22 000ca000.
eth0:    23 000ca000.
eth0:    24 200ca000.
eth0:    25 000ca000.
eth0:  * 26 000c0000.
eth0:    27 000ca000.
eth0:    28 000ca000.
eth0:    29 000ca000.
eth0:    30 000ca000.
eth0:    31 000ca000.
eth0: Printing Rx ring (next to receive into 3477368, dirty index
3477368).
eth0:     0 00000001.
eth0:     1 00000001.
eth0:     2 00000001.
eth0:     3 00000001.
eth0:     4 00000001.
eth0:     5 00000001.
eth0:     6 00000001.
eth0:     7 00000001.
eth0:     8 00000001.
eth0:     9 00000001.
eth0:    10 00000001.
eth0:    11 00000001.
eth0:    12 00000001.
eth0:    13 00000001.
eth0:    14 00000001.
eth0:    15 00000001.
eth0:    16 00000001.
eth0:    17 00000001.
eth0:    18 00000001.
eth0:    19 00000001.
eth0:    20 00000001.
eth0:    21 00000001.
eth0:    22 00000001.
eth0: l  23 c0000001.
eth0:  *=24 00000001.
eth0:    25 00000001.
eth0:    26 00000001.
eth0:    27 00000001.
eth0:    28 00000001.
eth0:    29 00000001.
eth0:    30 00000001.
eth0:    31 00000001.
eth0:  PHY index 1 register 0 is 3000.
eth0:  PHY index 1 register 1 is 782d.
eth0:  PHY index 1 register 2 is 02a8.
eth0:  PHY index 1 register 3 is 0154.
eth0:  PHY index 1 register 4 is 05e1.
eth0:  PHY index 1 register 5 is 0021.
eth0:  PHY index 1 register 21 is 0000.


What does all of this mean or should I just ignore it?