new info WAS: Re: [tulip] LNE100TX version 4.1 timeouts on tx

[Erik Steffl]

  after having problems described below I tried to move the LNE100TX to
different PCI slot and now it's all different. Soundcard works OK (it
used to play only about 1 second of sound when network card used to be
in original slot).

  however, now the network card hangs up, not sure if it's tx or rx
(probably tx judging by the messages below).

  I get plenty of messages like this one (all of them are exactly the
same):

eth0: Transmit timed out, status fc664010, CSR12 00000000, resetting...

  the eth0 interface does not work, it starts working if I unload the
drivers and ifup eth0 again.

  any ideas what's going on?

  (/etc/interrupts did not changed, see below)

  TIA

	erik

Erik Steffl wrote:
> 
>   the linksys LNE100TX card with driver from linksys timeouts when there
> is busy traffic on tx. From application point of view only one
> connection dies (because of timeout),all the rest are working ok.
> 
>   I have tested this with various programs, mostly vnc but also ftp,
> telnet, ping and X.
> 
>   my system:
> 
>   linux machine with LNE100TX (PCI), version 4.12 card, running debian
> distro (unstable), kernel 2.2.17, driver:
> 
>   "tulip.c:v0.92 4/17/2000  Written by Donald Becker
> <becker@scyld.com>\n";
> 
>   windows machine on the other side, intel on board network card (does
> it matter?)
> 
>   these two machines are connected by crossover cable, full duplex,
> 100Mbs. I guess the cable is OK, I tried to change the direction (errors
> are in one direction only)... There are no errors (corrupted packets)
> indicated by any programs I tried (mostly intel diagnostics tool, I also
> checked variosu log on linux machine).
> 
>   anytime there is huge transfer from linux to win there is a chance it
> time outs, for example vnc only works for about one minute, X almost
> does not work (I have X server on win machine), ftp transfer of 1MB file
> work often but sometime does not work...
> 
>   when the transfer goes the other way around, it works like charm, I
> used vnc to view win screensaver, it ran all night, no problems.
> 
>  low bandwidth transfer doesnot seem to be a problem, ping works both
> way (evenusing 10k packets), telnet works, I use linux machine as
> gateway/masq/firewall and I haven't noticed any problems (Ihave only
> 33.600 modem)
> 
>   another, probably unrelated problem: once the card stopped working at
> all, unfortunately I do not have error message...
> 
>   yet another problem: if the LNE100TX is in the machine, the soundcard
> (soundblaster 64 awe, ISA) does not work, even if I do not load
> tulip/pci-scan drivers at all, there is only about one second of any
> audio heard (and no midi at all). If I take out the netwrok card and
> reboot, the sound works. I see no error messages at all.
> 
>   also, why does it says tulipc.: ... (see below) during bootup? After
> the boot is completed lsmod does not show tulip.o loaded...
> 
>   here's some more info:
> 
>   lspci identifies card as:
> 
> 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Bridgecom, Inc: Unknown device 0985 (rev
> 11)
> 
>   dmesg says:
> 
> ...
> mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb100
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
> ...
> ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> tulip.c:v0.92 4/17/2000  Written by Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
>   http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
> eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0xc584a000, 00:20:78:12:14:CC, IRQ 9.
> PnP: Calling quirk for 02:00
> PnP: Calling quirk for 02:02
> isapnp: Card 'Creative Modem Blaster DI5600'
> ...
> 
>   (I was told that it's amdtek centaur-P anyway)
> 
> jojda:/home/erik# cat /proc/interrupts
>            CPU0
>   0:    7465096          XT-PIC  timer
>   1:      32049          XT-PIC  keyboard
>   2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
>   5:          0          XT-PIC  Sound Blaster 16
>   8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
>   9:    1187655          XT-PIC  eth0
>  11:   11687930          XT-PIC  serial
>  12:     347181          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
>  13:          0          XT-PIC  fpu
>  14:    3414768          XT-PIC  ide0
> NMI:          0
> 
>   is there any chance to get this working?
> 
>   any ideas? TIA
> 
>         erik
> 
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