[eepro100] e100 vs. eepro100

[Antwerpen, Oliver]

Hi Donald,

> Von: Donald Becker [mailto:becker@scyld.com]
> 
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Antwerpen, Oliver wrote:
> 
> > some information for you...
> ..
> > Feb  6 06:30:21 hunter kernel: eepro100.c:v1.13 1/9/2001 
> Donald Becker
> > <becker@scyld.com>
> 
> Good.

*phew*
 
> ...
> > Feb  8 15:25:28 hunter kernel: eth2: Transmit timed out: 
> status 0050  0080
> > at 328083/328089 commands 000c0000 000c0000 000c0000.
> ...
> > Feb  8 15:25:28 hunter kernel:   PHY index 1 register 0 is 3000.
> > Feb  8 15:25:28 hunter kernel:   PHY index 1 register 1 is 7829.
> 
> This one _looks_ easy -- you lost link beat at some point.  That's not
> necessarily the problem, but might be.

Yes, right. Now I remenber the numbers... *g*
 
> > Feb  8 15:25:28 hunter kernel:   PHY index 1 register 5 is 45e1.
> 
> Your link partner is advertising flow control.  It's possible that the
> i82559 chip has paused transmission due to flow control.  I 
> should print
> the current flow control timeout as well.  Was the network 
> exceptionally
> busy at this time?
 
No, it also happens at night, when there's almost no traffic. For me there
seems to be no relationship between traffic and problems.
 
> > Feb  8 15:25:28 hunter kernel: eth2: Tx ring dump,  Tx 
> queue 328089 /
> > 328083:
> > Feb  8 15:25:28 hunter kernel: eth2:   18 000ca000.
> > Feb  8 15:25:28 hunter kernel: eth2: * 19 000c0000.
> > Feb  8 15:25:28 hunter kernel: eth2:   20 000c0000.
> > Feb  8 15:25:28 hunter kernel: eth2:   21 000c0000.
> > Feb  8 15:25:28 hunter kernel: eth2:   22 000c0000.
> > Feb  8 15:25:28 hunter kernel: eth2:   23 000c0000.
> > Feb  8 15:25:28 hunter kernel: eth2:   24 400c0000.
> > Feb  8 15:25:28 hunter kernel: eth2:  =25 000ca000.
> > Feb  8 15:25:28 hunter kernel: eth2:   28 000ca000.
> 
> Did the interface resume correct operation at this point?

Yes, in this case it did.
 
> > Feb  8 15:25:28 hunter kernel:   PHY index 1 register 0 is 3000.
> > Feb  8 15:25:28 hunter kernel:   PHY index 1 register 1 is 782d.
> 
> Link beat has returned.

OK. So this means to me, that I should not use auto negotiation, but pass
options=... to the module? Is it sure, that this will help? Otherways I will
try out the intel e100 module. My customer isn't really happy right now...

Thanks so long!

Olli