I originally posted a similar bug report under
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/
index.php?func=detail&aid=440357&group_id=3242&atid=103242
but as I guess that this list is a much more appropriate place for
it, here it goes, slightly modified:
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Hello,
I've tried reading LKML archives etc for this problem
and the advice usually is "fixed in the latest kernel
versions". So I've tried 2.2.18 (not with the 8139too
driver but Don Becker's, which is IIRC actually known
to have this bug) and the 8139too driver with 2.4.0
upwards to 2.4.6 and 2.4.6ac2.
After bootup, if I do something network-wise which takes up more
bandwidth than ICQ and IRC, soon I get in the syslog:
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: Tx queue start entry 4346 dirty entry 4342.
eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 00002000.
eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 00002000.
eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 00002000. (queue head)
eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 00002000.
eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated
partner ability 0000.
and this makes the network stop for a few seconds
before the Watchdog resets the ethernet card and makes
it work again, dropping my download throughput from
approx. 400 kB/s to 10 kB/s. Ugh.
I've also tried just setting the #define RTL8139_DEBUG
1, at least in the more up-to-date 0.9.18 (without the pre4) from
Jeff Garzik's Sourceforge project site, but this gave very strange
results (like the driver displaying it had 100Mpbs and Full Duplex,
while the card's connected to a normal 10 Mbit hub (which I guess
can
only handle half-duplex!?)
OK, without having enabled debug info I'll also attach
the lspci -vvv and the rtl8139diag output as indicated in the
8139too.c
source file.
If you need further information, please do Cc: me as I'm not on this
list,
and while I'll check the archive answers will be faster with a Cc.
I'll answer almost everything (because I tried switching
motherboards, processors, a new RTL8319C, network
cables... and I always got the same error. Argh. It
also happened on my old SuSE distro as it does now on
Debian unstable. It's probably some kind of "user too dumb" error
:-(
So, now the output of lspci -vvv:
wh36-b407:/home/mcornils/8139too-0.9.18# lspci -vvv
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8363/8365
[KT133/KM133] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown
device 0987
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle-
MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr-
DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR-
<PERR-
Latency: 32
Region 0: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit,
prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0
Status: RQ=31 SBA+ 64bit- FW-
Rate=x1,x2
Command: RQ=0 SBA- AGP- 64bit- FW-
Rate=<none>
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2-
AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0
PME-
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8363/8365
[KT133/KM133 AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle-
MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr-
DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR-
<PERR-
Latency: 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01,
sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000f000-00000fff
Memory behind bridge: fff00000-000fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge:
fff00000-000fffff
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort-
>Reset- FastB2B-
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2-
AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0
PME-
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686
[Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686/A
PCI to ISA Bridge
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle-
MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr-
DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR-
<PERR-
Latency: 0
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2-
AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0
PME-
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus
Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master
IDE
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle-
MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr-
DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR-
<PERR-
Latency: 32
Region 4: I/O ports at c000 [size=16]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2-
AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0
PME-
00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C686
[Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown
device 0987
Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle-
MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr-
DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR-
<PERR-
Interrupt: pin ? routed to IRQ 5
Capabilities: [68] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2-
AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0
PME-
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA
Technologies,
Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown
device 0987
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle-
MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr-
DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR-
<PERR-
Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 10
Region 0: I/O ports at cc00 [size=256]
Region 1: I/O ports at d000 [size=4]
Region 2: I/O ports at d400 [size=4]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2-
AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0
PME-
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor
Co.,
Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 10)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RT8139
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle-
MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr-
DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR-
<PERR-
Latency: 32 (8000ns min, 16000ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
Region 1: Memory at d6001000 (32-bit,
non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+
AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0
PME-
00:0b.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies
Inc
3D Rage LT Pro (rev dc) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device
0044
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle-
MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr-
DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR-
<PERR-
Latency: 32 (2000ns min), cache line size 08
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
Region 0: Memory at d4000000 (32-bit,
non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Region 1: I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
Region 2: Memory at d6000000 (32-bit,
non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
[size=128K]
Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 1
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+
AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0
PME-
00:0c.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree
Corporation Bt878 (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.
WinTV/GO
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle-
MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr-
DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR-
<PERR-
Latency: 32 (4000ns min, 10000ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 12
Region 0: Memory at d6002000 (32-bit,
prefetchable) [size=4K]
00:0c.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree
Corporation
Bt878 (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.
WinTV/GO
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle-
MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr-
DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR-
<PERR-
Latency: 32 (1000ns min, 63750ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 12
Region 0: Memory at d6003000 (32-bit,
prefetchable) [size=4K]
and now the rtl-8319-diag-output (unfortunately it was
impossible to time this so that the output is from the
exact moment where it resets the card):
rtl8139-diag.c:v2.01 1/8/2001 Donald Becker
(becker@scyld.com)
http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
Index #1: Found a RealTek RTL8139 adapter at
0xdc00.
RealTek chip registers at 0xdc00
0x000: 767de000 0000f63d 80000000 00000000 080825ea
9708a5ea 9108a5ea 9408a5ea
0x020: 0f52c000 0f52c600 0f52cc00 0f52d200 0de50000
0d0a0000 45784568 2000c07f
0x040: 78000600 0e00f78e 30482234 00000000 004d10c6
00000000 0080c108 00100000
0x060: 1000e00f 05e1782d 00000000 00000000 00000005
000007c0 58fab388 a438d843.
No interrupt sources are pending.
(null) indication.
The chip configuration is 0x10 0x4d, MII
full-duplex
mode.
EEPROM size test returned 6, 0x204a4 / 0x2.
Parsing the EEPROM of a RealTek chip:
PCI IDs -- Vendor 0x10ec, Device 0x8139, Subsystem
0x10ec.
PCI timer settings -- minimum grant 32, maximum
latency 64.
General purpose pins -- direction 0xe1 value 0x10.
Station Address 00:E0:7D:76:3D:F6.
Configuration register 0/1 -- 0x4d / 0xc2.
EEPROM active region checksum is 0a83.
EEPROM contents:
8129 10ec 8139 10ec 8139 4020 e110 e000
767d f63d 4d10 f7c2 8001 b388 58fa 0708
d843 a438 d843 a438 d843 a438 d843 a438
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
The word-wide EEPROM checksum is 0xdda6.
BTW, why it says full-duplex mode above, I don't know. Especially
since
the output from the mii-diag program says differently:
wh36-b407:/home/mcornils/8139too-0.9.18# ./mii-diag.o
Using the default interface 'eth0'.
Basic registers of MII PHY #32: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000.
Basic mode control register 0x0000: Auto-negotiation disabled, with
Speed fixed at 10 mbps, half-duplex.
Basic mode status register 0x0000 ... 0000.
Link status: not established.
Link partner information information is not exchanged when in fixed
speed mode.wh36-b407:/home/mcornils/8139too-0.9.18#
It would be so cool if you could help me out here :-)
-Malte #8-)
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