eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register xx

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Arnaud Lemaitre wrote:

> On one boxes syslog debug file is filled with this message very offently :
> 		eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82
> I've read that it could come from a misconfiguration. but the switch port on
> which the box is connected to is configured for 100 FullDuplex transmission.
> It's true taht the switch anyliser reports 83 % of bandwith utilization

This is documented on the Vortex web page.

You have a duplex mismatch.
Never force full duplex when the link works with autonegotation.  In this
case you have the switch set to forced full duplex, which must turn off
autonegotiation.

> I also had this message on another box.
> eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 90

Try fixing the duplex problem and see if this one goes away.

Donald Becker
Scyld Computing Corporation, and
USRA-CESDIS,   becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov