[yellowfin] GNIC II Driver

[Jeevan V. Savant]

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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