Meaning of `transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e601' ?

[Al Smith]

Piete Brooks wrote:

> What should I be looking at: switch port, UTP cable, or what ?
>
> eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e601.
>   Flags; bus-master 1, full 0; dirty 13933865 current 13933865.
>   Transmit list 00000000 vs. ce5e1290.
>   0: @ce5e1200  length 8000002a status 0001002a

i had these symptons last week, on a machine that had been running 10base2
from a pair of 3c900s for about 2.5 years without any problems.

replacing the cable didn't cure things. rebooting fixed things for a while:
pinging a neighbouring machine (coincidentally also running a pair of
3c900s) resulted eventually (after a few minutes or so) in 1second round
trip times and shortly afterwards the timed out messages returned. i could
ifconfig eth0 down; ifconfig eth up which also seemed to fix things
temporarily but the same symptons were sure to return.

eventually i swapped the card with an identical card from someone's desktop
PC, and as if by magic everything worked again. oddly enough, the `broken'
card is still working fine in the desktop PC so i'm really at a loss to
explain this one.

i'd surmise that it's not possible to deduce what the problem is just from
observing `transmit timed out', and that the only thing to do is to swap
things around until it works again. BTW i'm using the 0.99L driver.

good luck,

-al.


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