2.2.19pre7 & broken eepro100?

[Lukasz Trabinski]

Hello

Today my important machine has dicsonneted from network with message
like this:

Jan 13 12:24:25 portraits kernel: eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 0)!
Jan 13 12:24:25 portraits kernel: eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 1)!
Jan 13 12:24:26 portraits kernel: eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 0)!
Jan 13 12:24:26 portraits kernel: eth0: can't fill rx buffer (force 1)!

eepro100.c: VA Linux custom, Dragan Stancevic <[e-mail]>
2000/11/15
eth0: Intel PCI EtherExpress Pro100 82557, 00:A0:C9:FC:02:70, IRQ 21.
  Board assembly 000000-000, Physical connectors present: RJ45
  Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
  General self-test: passed.
  Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
  Internal registers self-test: passed.
  ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
  Receiver lock-up workaround activated.
eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.20.2.10 $ 2000/05/31 Modified by Andrey V.
Savochkin <[e-mail]> and others
eepro100.c: VA Linux custom, Dragan Stancevic <[e-mail]>
2000/11/15

Machine:

Linux RedHat 7.0, glibc 2.2, 1GB RAM, with running squid,news,uucp,nfs.
2 X Pentium III,

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440GX - 82443GX Host bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440GX - 82443GX AGP bridge
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Standard Microsystems Corp [SMC] 83C170QF
(rev 06)
00:0c.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec 7896
00:0c.1 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec 7896
00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100]
(rev 08)00:12.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:12.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:12.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:12.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:14.0 VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5480 (rev 23)
01:0f.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21150 (rev 05)

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*[ Łukasz Tr±biński ]*
SysAdmin @wsisiz.edu.pl