Inifinitive retransmission and timeout

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, MHC wrote:

> > >  Eth0 transmit timeout, status 0d, 00000
> >
> > This should be fixed by v1.03, which recovers from Tx underruns (the usual
> > source of the problem), and completely resets the chip on a timeout.
..
> Have you posted 1.03 somewhere or not yet ?
> I've downloaded and tested 1.00F dated Aug 12 from
> ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/test/rtl8139.c.

I was wrong: 1.00F is the most recent version.  (I have a 1.00g internal
version, but that only combines the check-duplex code into its own function.)

> It suffers the same problem, except printing with  more
> verbosome error messages.

What is the exact error message?  Just the numbers will do:
" status %2.2x %4.4x media %2.2x.\n",

Does the chip restart after the timeout?  (It should -- there is a complete
reset.)

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