[yellowfin] GNIC II Driver

[shreenivasa HV]

FYI. mine is a single CPU system.


>From: "Jeevan V. Savant" <jvsavant@mtu.edu>
>To: shreenivasa HV <shreenihv@hotmail.com>
>CC: yellowfin@scyld.com
>Subject: Re: [yellowfin] GNIC II Driver
>Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 16:32:05 -0400 (EDT)
>
>Hi,
>	I had similar transmit timeout problem, although the status code
>was different.
>
>	Tx status 8000, Rx status 8400
>
>The other obeservations were similar, like tranmit failing after first
>12-15 sends. I was using a machine with 2 processors and a SMP kernel
>running on it. My problem got solved when I switched to a uni-processor
>kernel. Vaguely I remember the problem was due to the way a SMP kernel,
>reassigns interrupt vectors, ie it messes it up, so u stop getting
>transmit done interrupts, and the driver thinks transmit is failing. The
>driver tries to retransmit for 12-15 times and then starts dumping card
>registers.
>
>Once I started using uni-processor kernel, the problem got solved.
>
>-g1
>
>  On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, shreenivasa HV wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I was trying to install the Packet Engines GNIC-II gigabit ethernet card
> > onto some of my Linux systems. I am running Redhat Linux 7.0 with kernel
> > version 2.2.16. The systems are P-III 600MHz. I have connected two 
>systems
> > which have the GNIC-II cards to each other through a cross-over
> > optical-fibre cable. I downloaded the driver available from the Scyld 
>site -
> > http://www.scyld.com/network/modules.html and exactly followed the
> > instructions. Also I inserted the PCI-SCAN and HAMACHI modules.
> >
> > When I try to ping one machine from another after 15 pings the ping
> > program hangs consistently. In each machine I have added a static route 
>to
> > the other machine as the IP gateway.
> > I even tried to ssh between them, but that again hangs during log on. It
> > seems like only the first few packets go through.
> > After some time the receiving end starts showing this error message.
> >
> > "eth1: Hamachi transmit timed out, status 00003803"
> >
> > Has anyone had any similar problems and does anyone know of a fix for 
>this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Shreeni.
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