Re: probs with DFE-580 TX

[Frank Sander <FrankSanderDo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

I was working a bit on the prob:

I have merged together the sundance driver source of the 2.6.11 kernel (last update brought me that peace) and the one delivered with the Network card.

IT WORKS :-)

now my question is:
Can some body with more experience in driver progging than me have a look at that?
How can we make sure (if my merging is ok) to bring that in one of the next updates?

thanks
Frank

Frank Sander wrote:

Hi folks,

after checking several options in the modprobe.conf and also the mentioned acpi=off if have to give up.
nothing changed the situation decribed before.

what I do not understand:
I get the fault message and it looks on the traffic analyser that I get it before the traffic stops =-O !?!?
than the traffic stops (I guess due to the transmitter reset) and than it comes back.
Unfortunately I can not proper analyse the traffic outside the interface because the machine is ~1000km away from me. Anyway I have the feeling, that the timeout comes together with a set of collisions on the network. Can that?

Does any body have an idea how this time out is created in the module?

see you all
Frank
Mary Ellen Foster wrote:

On 4/15/05, Frank Sander <FrankSanderDo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  

kernel 2.6.10-1.770_FC3smp on a pentium 4 HT board with MEGAraid controler.
DFE-580TX 4 port ethernet gives me every few seconds

Apr 15 12:01:33 greystar01 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
Apr 15 12:01:33 greystar01 kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out, TxStatus 00
TxFrameId 02, resetting...

and resets the port.
The Card is transfering Data but with the reset I always get the
transfer down for a few seconds.
    

That sounds like *exactly* the same problem I'm currently having with
my Broadcom Ethernet card in FC4test2
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154512) -- also
a Pentium 4 HT processor. In test1, I was able to make it go away by
adding "acpi=off" to the command line in Grub; maybe that will work
for you with your card too.

MEF