NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out on LNE100TX 4.0, kernel

Manuel A. McLure (mmt@unify.com)
Tue, 20 Mar 2001 13:14:59 -0800


System:
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 900MHz
MSI K7T Pro (VIA KT133 chipset)
Network card: Linksys LNE100TX Rev. 4.0 (tulip)
Kernel: 2.2.18 (with 0.92 Scyld drivers), 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.2-ac11

With all the above kernel revisions/drivers, my network card hangs at random
(sometimes within minutes, other times it takes days). To restart it I need
to do an ifdown/ifup cycle and it will work fine until the next hang. I
upgraded to 2.4.2-ac11 because of the documented tulip fixes, but after a
few days got this again. The error log shows:

Mar 16 18:37:00 ulthar kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
Mar 16 18:37:00 ulthar kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out, status fc664010,
CSR12
00000000, resetting...

ad infinitum until I do ifdown/ifup. The status & CSR12 values are always
the same. My card is detected as follows by the kernel:

Mar 12 21:38:49 ulthar kernel: Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.14c (March 3,
2001
)
Mar 12 21:38:49 ulthar kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.0
Mar 12 21:38:49 ulthar kernel: IRQ routing conflict in pirq table for device
00:
07.2
Mar 12 21:38:49 ulthar kernel: IRQ routing conflict in pirq table for device
00:
07.3
Mar 12 21:38:49 ulthar kernel: PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:0e.0
Mar 12 21:38:49 ulthar kernel: eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0xdc00,
00:20:78:0D:
D2:E1, IRQ 11.

Any ideas on why this might be happening?

--
Manuel A. McLure - Unify Corp. Technical Support <mmt@unify.com>
Space Ghost: "Hey, what happened to the-?" Moltar: "It's out." SG: "What
about-?" M: "It's fixed." SG: "Eh, good. Good."

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