Thanks for the help...I kept coming back to this possibility, but the Windows driver on that machine says it's half-duplex - wouldn't put it past windows to lie to me.....also, it's a shitty little card that came my ADSL modem.... Dave Euser dave_euser@yahoo.com On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > Dave Euser wrote: > > First, a little background info: > > > > I've got a P200 running Linux (2.2.18) with an SMC-Ultra (ISA), which is > > connected to a 10Base-T hub. Initially, I had just this machine plugged > > into a Notrel 1Mbps modem - no problems. Now, my roomate finally got his > > own box (Windows ME). I picked up a hub, some cable, and found an old 486 > > which is now a firewall. Somewhere during this process, I started getting > > this error message when I'm on the net (thru the firewall): > > > > eth0: Tx timed out, cable problem? TSR=0xc0, ISR=0x0, t=[varies] > > > >From 8390.h you have (c0=80+40): > > #define ENTSR_CDH 0x40 /* The collision detect "heartbeat" signal was > lost. */ > #define ENTSR_OWC 0x80 /* There was an out-of-window collision. */ > > A cut-n-paste from one of Donald's messages: > > "You have an out-of-window collisions. As it explains on that web > page, this is usually caused by some other host being incorrectly > set to full duplex, not a local driver or hardware bug." > > (Donald's www pages are now at http://www.scyld.com - not cesdis) > > Paul. > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org