[eepro100] EEpro100, Red Hat 7.1, wait_for_cmd_done timeout errors

[Brett Thorson]

Ok, I did all of this, but now I am having a new problem

I did the netdrivers install that you suggested and changed the.  It was running real good for a while.
However it appears to degrade over time.

Some weird messages in /var/log/messages about some command not being
accepted.

--
Jan  8 11:56:01 ran kernel: Command 0070 was not accepted after 20001
polls!  Current status 01700000.
Jan  8 11:56:01 ran kernel: Command 10 was not immediately accepted, 10001
ticks!
Jan  8 11:56:01 ran kernel: Command 90 was not immediately accepted, 10001
ticks!
Jan  8 11:56:01 ran last message repeated 3 times
Jan  8 11:56:03 ran kernel: Command 80 was not immediately accepted, 10001
ticks!
Jan  8 11:56:04 ran kernel: Command 80 was not immediately accepted, 10001
ticks!
--

Don't know if this is related to the ethernet drivers or not although some
of the eepro100 archives show this as a problem.  But that was back in
October 2001.

Pings are currently running at around 400 ms, now 100 ms.  Longer than
after I rebooted the machine.


Any more ideas, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

--Brett


On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Donald Becker wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Brett Thorson wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Donald Becker wrote:
> > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Brett Thorson wrote:
> > >
> > > > This bug hit us pretty hard too.  I've looked around, and haven't seen
> > > > anywhere that points to a direct solution.
> > >
> > > > So either there isn't one, or I just haven't found it yet.
> > >
> > > Have your tried the driver from scyld yet?
> > >
> > I guess I am a little confused.  Confused enough to drive into the office
> > at 2am to make sure I wasn't going crazy.
> >
> > I just looked in my logs, and I am using the scyld driver.
> >
> > kernel: eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker
> > http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
>
> This is a modified driver that split from my development.  There are
> usually several additional lines that say "modified by ..."
>
> > So are you recomending that I take this file:
> > ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/eepro100.c
>
> Yes.
>
> > and follow these directions
> > http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html#single
>
> It's easier to do:
>
> mkdir /tmp/netdrivers/
> cd /tmp/netdrivers/
> ncftpget ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdrivers.tgz
> tar xfvz netdrivers.tgz
> make
> make install
>
>
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