Re: Tulip driver bug in 2.4.17 (fwd)

[David Lang]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Ben Greear wrote:

> David Lang wrote:
>
>
> > for me the same machine is rock solid with 2.4.5/8 (driver 0.9.14) but
> > fails with 2.4.14/17 (driver 0.9.15-pre9)
>
>
> Can you check if your 2.4.5/8 driver actually does 100bt-FD autonegotiation
> correctly?  I believe it was broken during that time, and fixed in 2.4.9.
> It's possible that that may have something to do with the problem, but
> it's a stretch...

I have been seeing some errors that could be autonegotiation failing, they
haven't been enough for me to ge the time to track them down (and I was
putting them down to cisco switch config issues anyway) I'll have to
double check.

correction on version numbers.

2.4.5-pre1 worked, 2.4.5 has driver 0.9-15-pre2 and fails, I guess I
hadn't tested properly with 2.4.8, compiling now with drivers/net from
2.4.4.

when it locks up the reset works immediatly, power takes a few seconds to
shutdown.

> It might also be interesting to see if the working driver still works
> if you forward port it into 2.4.17....
>
> Ben
>
>
> >
> > the failure is not at all traffic related, I have these boxes in
> > production (only useing 3 of the 4 ports) with no problems at all, but on
> > a box not connected to any network I can lock it up by just issuing an
> > ifconfig.
> >
> > it's possible that it's a PCI problem (if so can we back off the timing to
> > what worked?), but I would expect the problem to be more variable if that
> > was the case.
> >
> > David Lang
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