It seems to me that the driver does not re-enable interrupts or the transmit and receive engines after it resets the adapter because of the PCI bus error. So, I would like to provide you with a patch which will log the state of these registers after the adapter reset and during the transmit timeout events to dmesg. If you do not have the kernel source available, I can try and compile the module for you (it will just take a bit longer, as I will have to find the SuSE 9.2 source). Thanks, Jon On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:15:13 +0100, Richard Ems <richard.ems@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jon Mason wrote: > > It seems to me the cause of the tx timeouts is the "HostError", which > > is a PCI bus error. This most likely caused the adapter to hang and > > then the transmits started timing out. > > > > As far as I can tell, the dl2k driver code is common between 2.4 and > > 2.6. So, some other change in the kernel is causing the driver to > > behave differently and expose this problem. > > > > I am not the maintainer, but I can try to assist you. However, it will > > require running debug drivers (as I am not able to find any > > documentation on this adapter). If you are not willing or able to do > > this, then I would suggest going back to the 2.4 kernel. > > Ok, yes, I'm willing to try your debug drivers. We'll see if I'm also > able ;-) > > What shall I do? > > Thanks ,Richard > > -- > Richard Ems > > MTG Marinetechnik GmbH > Wandsbeker Königstr. 62 > 22041 Hamburg > Telefon: +49 40 65803 312 > TeleFax: +49 40 65803 392 > mail: richard.ems@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
