> Hi dennis, I'm getting these messages too with an identical card...
> 8139 (rev 10)... seems to have started happening after I went to
> 2.4.17... strangely enough I'm getting very similar męssages on the
> machine right beside it.. running 2.4.13, SMP, and a 3com 3c905b
> (Boomerang).
The problem with the 8139 is the fact that the chip design is really
dumb, when I say dumb here, I mean *really* dumb ;-(
The result is that when the card is bombarded with a lot of small
packets it can livelock because the queues fill up faster than the
kernel code can empty and process them.
I made some changes to improve the situation in the driver, for 2.2
kernels, which I have submitted to Jeff and he plans to integrated
them into the next release.
My patched drivers are available from
http://www.wildopensource.com/proj/download/SG_drivers.html however I
haven't tested them on 2.4.x, so I am not going to bet on them
working.
Cheers,
Jes
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