[eepro100] Re: Need help correcting the following error

[Daniel Veillard]

> Receiving ring is ok;
> 
> > eth0: Transmit timed out: status f048  0000 at 696171120/696171148 command 0001a000.
> 
> but the status is what's interesting there.
> It means that the hardware receiver is in stopped state because it thinks
> that we don't have enough buffers.  It may happen, for example, when the
> traffic bursts.
> The question is why it didn't recover after that.
> I'll think why it may happen.

  Two points to consider:
    - this is an SMP system, fr.rpmfind.net is uniprocessor show those
      kind of errors but don't block
    - this is an oooold eepro100 chipset, and this really looks like the
      hardware is stuck (unloading/reloading the module don't help, reset
      does it).

maybe this card should just have ended in the trash bin a long time ago :-)

Daniel

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