[realtek] Transmit timeout problems

Tue Aug 27 17:00:07 2002

Thanks a lot!  The noapci flag worked around the problem.  Now I get to
have fun doing pirq= permutations.

Brian

On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 10:37:51PM -0400, Donald Becker wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 brian@rentec.com wrote:
> 
> > I'm having a problem with my realtek 8139C.  I can't get it working under
> > 2.4 series kernels.  It works fine in 2.2.20 with rtl8139.
> 
> > # insmod rtl8139.o debug=31
> > rtl8139.c:v1.20 6/21/2002 Donald Becker, becker@scyld.com.
> >  http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html
> > eth0: RealTek RTL8139C Fast Ethernet at 0xe400, IRQ 18, 00:30:1b:10:07:32.
> ...
> > eth0: Transmit timeout, status 0c 0005 media 18.
> > eth0: RTL8139 Interrupt line blocked, status 5.
> 
> Interrupt problem.
> 
> > # ./rtl8139-diag -aa -f
> > rtl8139-diag.c:v2.09 8/6/2002 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
> ...
> >   Interrupt sources are pending.
> >    Rx Complete indication.
> >    Rx Buffer Overflow indication.
> >    Rx FIFO Overflow indication.
> 
> Yup, your interrupt line isn't working.  See the kernel boot message for
> information on working around this problem.  Perhaps "noapic" as a
> kernel option at boot...
> 
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