ASIX 88141 problems continue

[Mattias Sandgren]

G'day!

This problem pertains to an ASIX 88141 card sold as: Cnet Pro110B

I thought after getting rid of the problem with properly setting up filtering
for the ASIX chip that that things would be merry. That's not happening. The
new 0.91m driver exhibits the same problems that version 0.91g does.

eth0: Transmit timed out, status 00260000, CSR12 00000100, resetting.

repeats infinitely.  With the older driver (0.91g) this happened immediately
upon inserting the module but this seems to appear randomly and the system is
stable 9 out of 10 hours. There is an identical card at the other end running
the same driver (0.91m) but this machine is UP (not SMP like the problem
machine) and has a weeks uptime and no network trouble. Also the card handling
outgoing traffic (10Mbit) is an Addtron card based on the 21140.  If there was
more traffic on the ASIX card (100Mbit) perhaps the same problem would occur?

I'd like to try the new driver and then evaluate the problem further but there
seems to be a problem - I can't compile the new driver (0.91s):

[orion] root:/usr/src/drivers/tulip/driver#gcc -D__SMP__ -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O -c tulip.c -DMODVERSIONS
tulip.c: In function `mdio_read':
tulip.c:1242: cannot convert to a pointer type
tulip.c:1251: cannot convert to a pointer type
tulip.c:1279: cannot convert to a pointer type
tulip.c: In function `mdio_write':
tulip.c:1301: cannot convert to a pointer type
tulip.c:1309: cannot convert to a pointer type
tulip.c:1335: cannot convert to a pointer type
[orion] root:/usr/src/drivers/tulip/driver#

Again: If Donald can get the driver to compile correctly I will look into the
problem a little further. The problem is not mission critical for me, this is
for my private network and problems can be accepted (for a while).


Regards

Mattias


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Mattias Sandgren - mailto:sagge@acc.umu.se http://www.acc.umu.se/~sagge
Computer Science and Engineering Student - University of Umea, Sweden.
One of them unix geeks. (  ( ( (( In Stereo Where Available )) ) )  )