[eepro100] eepro100 driver frequently dying in Linux 2.4.4
Kallol Biswas
kallol@bugula.fpk.hp.com
Sat, 19 May 2001 0:06:59 EDT
Hello Garen,
There are many bugs with 82559 hardware, a few of them:
1) if sleep mode is trned on(bit 2 of eeprom word 10,id reg) under heavy
stress the card fails to respond to read request, the pci agent
generates master abort.
2) The TCO controller eats incoming NFS fragments which looks like
TCO packets.
3) Under high network stress the card starts eating outgoing frames, though
posts command transmit command completed interrupt, and good status, nothing
gets transmitted over the wire.
4)Some times the card fails self test and goes down, I believe it can't
update memory for a while when system is highly loaded.
There may be many more...
One good thing is there a workaround for every problem.
I don't know what the symbols '*' and '=' stand for at
Tx ring location 8 & 12.
Can you send me the source code for the driver? I will try to find what caused
the time out. Probably you will get responses from other developers.
Kallol
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> After upgrading from 2.2.18 to 2.4.4, my eepro card (Pro/100+ Management Adapter)dies after moderate use every other day. In /var/log/messages, I see stuff like this:
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> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out: status f048 0c00 at 1646444/1646472 command 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: Tx ring dump, Tx queue 1646472 / 1646444:
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 0 200ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 1 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 2 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 3 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 4 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 5 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 6 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 7 400ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: = 8 200ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 9 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 10 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 11 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: * 12 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 13 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 14 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 15 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 16 200ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 17 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 18 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 19 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 20 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 21 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 22 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 23 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 24 200ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 25 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 26 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 27 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 28 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 29 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 30 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 31 000ca000.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: Printing Rx ring (next to receive into 1709490, dirty index 1709490, dirty index 1709490).
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 0 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 1 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 2 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 3 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 4 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 5 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 6 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 7 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 8 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 9 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 10 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 11 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 12 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 13 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 14 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 15 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 16 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: l 17 c000a022.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: *=18 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 19 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 20 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 21 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 22 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 23 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 24 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 25 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 26 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 27 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 28 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 29 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 30 0000a020.
> May 18 11:05:07 borgy kernel: eth0: 31 0000a020.
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> After it does that about 3 or 4 times, networking with the card just fails altogether. If it helps, my setup looks like: Abit BP6 (Dual Celerons, ACPI v1.4), 768MB ram, serial# of card is 721383-810. I've just installed Intel's driver for the card v1.65 and it has been running fine for a few hours now, will see if it lasts. Any input welcome.
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> -Garen
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