[tulip-bug] failure under high NFS load

[Stig Hackvan]

on May 11 2002, Greg Wooledge reported that the tulip driver would stop
responding under high NFS loads but recover if the interface was shutdown and
the module reloaded.  the problem went away for him when he upgraded to kernel
2.2.21 on his nfs client machine in July...  

i've experienced the problem with a conexant ethernet/modem notebook module
with both mandrake's 8.2 and redhat's 7.3 kernels from the 2.4 series.  

compiled for kernel 2.4.18-10 the init messages report

 pci-scan.c:v1.11 8/31/2002  Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com> http://www.scyld.com/linux/drivers.html
 tulip.c:v0.95c 9/19/2002  Written by Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
   http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
   The PCI BIOS has not enabled the device at 0/72!  Updating PCI command 0003->0007.
 eth0: Conexant LANfinity rev 8 at 0xcd0c0000, 00:50:8B:AA:72:05, IRQ 9.
 eth0:  MII transceiver #1 config 1000 status 782d advertising 01e1.
 eth0:  MII transceiver #0 config 1000 status 782d advertising 01e1.

i'm operating away from the network on which this machine generally locks up
for me so i can't tulip-diag the problem at the moment, but i'll capture the
controller state the next time it locks up.

	stig