Hi, We're using VIA EPIA mini-ITX with 800Mhz C3 and the VT6103 PHY. (via-rhine driver says VT6102). We have made sure power supply is "big enough". Our kernel is 2.4.18 with via-rhine.c patches to fix TX timeout. Our TX timeout issues seem to have gone away with the recent patches. However we are still plagued with the "reset did not complete in 10ms" errors. Once it this state, a warm restart of the system is necessary (and we have seen this problem at boot time, which is more confusing). Anyway, we can make this problem occur easily by doing 'ifconfig down eth0' followed by 'ifconfig up eth0'. The error happens on the 'open' of the device. However, when we do this with 'no link' (cable not plugged in), the problem does not happen. It only seems to happen when there is activity on the wire and plugged in. When the reset does not happen, the CR0/CR1 state after the reset is always 0x8008 now matter what the current state of those regs going into the reset. So it appears the problem is actually in the 'close' when possibly in the process of receiving a packet. Especially given that via_rhine_close puts the device in loopback mode to void hardware races. Does via_rhine_close need to be a little smarter/paranoid? :)) Besides register definitions, the docs are pretty useless. Are there hardware issues that are still not fixed? eg. a reset does not reset the chip regardless of state. Any help or ideas would be appreciated. thanks larry - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
