[tulip-bug] Kingston kne111tx and recompiling tulip on Mandrake8.0

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Keith Warno wrote:

> Donald Becker wrote:
> Maybe an hour after using the driver, the LinkSys LNE100 v4 just died. 
> Packets weren't going anywhere and unfortunately there were no messages
> in syslog at all.

Load the driver with debug=3 to show Tx errors.
Run  'tulip-diag' to see the current state.
  http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html

> So I went back to using the kernel-distributed tulip driver (2.4.6),
> maintained by Jeff Garzik.  This driver, too, didn't work out.  Syslog
> reports:
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> eth0: PNIC2 transmit timed out, status e4260000, CSR6/7 82422002 /
> effffbff CSR12 40a1d0cc, resetting...

The transmitter is in the "waiting for Tx to end" state.
The 'tulip-diag' program will tell us more.

> with the same card?  And Jeff says there "is a generic PCI PM problem in
> 2.4.6, unrelated to tulip specifically, that has since been fixed"?  I

The power management problem presents itself as cards that report only
"0xffffffff" in the registers.

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