[realtek] rtl8139C card makes linux 2.2.18 crash

[Loh Kok Meng]

I've had similar problems using v1.13 of the drivers with my realtek
cards until I switched back to v1.08. That worked for me.

-kokmeng.

Johan Thim wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have had a lot of problems the last few weeks with two newly bought
> RTL8139C chips based cards. During heavy network load both of my boxes
> hangs with no error output. This is the most common thing, sometimes they
> reboots instead and sometimes I get the usual "eth2: Tx queue start entry
> 241463  dirty entry 241459, full."
> 
> Both machines run Linux 2.2.18 and uses the same kind of card. One of the
> machines is a p200 which have been stable for the last 4 years and the
> other one is an Abit based system that got pretty stable with a new BIOS
> a few months ago.
> 
> I use v1.13 of of the rtl8139 driver on both machines, and the crashes
> happens on both so I guess it must be the card/driver thats causing them.
> I tried different BIOS settings for the IRQ lines and so on (even different
> permutations of the cards physically) and it always ends up crashing
> sooner or later.
> 
> It might be worth pointing out that v1.13 works much better than earlier
> versions that crashed almost at once :)
> 
> I tried the 8139too driver as well, but that one crashes as fast as earlier
> versions of the driver I use now.
> 
> I checked the mail archive and found out that a similar error existed
> before (a memcpy() bug), but that one was fixed later. This feels like
> something similar, anyone have any ideas of what I should do? Except
> buying a few real cards that is..
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 
> /Johan Thim
> 
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