Tulip Bug ?

[Adam Schrotenboer]

I am currently running 2.4.18-pre9-mjc2, but this also happens w/ 
2.4.18-pre9 (and 2.4.18-pre7-mjc, maybe others)

I am getting NETDEV Watchdog timeouts

Mar 13 02:12:54 tabriel kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
Mar 13 02:12:54 tabriel kernel: eth1: 21140 transmit timed out, status 
fc665410, SIA fffffeff ffffffff 1c09fdc0 fffffec8, resetting...
Mar 13 02:12:54 tabriel kernel: eth1: transmit timed out, switching to 
100baseTx-FDX media.
Mar 13 02:13:02 tabriel kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
Mar 13 02:13:02 tabriel kernel: eth1: 21140 transmit timed out, status 
fc665410, SIA fffffe1b ffffffff 1c09fdc0 fffffec8, resetting...
Mar 13 02:13:02 tabriel kernel: eth1: transmit timed out, switching to 
10baseT media.
Mar 13 02:13:34 tabriel kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out
Mar 13 02:13:34 tabriel kernel: eth1: 21140 transmit timed out, status 
fc665410, SIA fffffe0b ffffffff 1c09fdc0 fffffec8, resetting...
Mar 13 02:13:34 tabriel kernel: eth1: transmit timed out, switching to 
100baseTx-FDX media.

I have been getting this at largely unpredictable intervals. The 
solutions seems to be to ifdown the ethdevs, and rmmod the driver. then 
ifup the ethdevs (which also means I have to stop my PPPoE-DSL 
connection).

eth1, the dev that is timing out is not sharing its interrupt.
These boards are/were marketed under the brand name SVEC. I cannot find 
the box they came in at the moment, so don't have the model number.

Just for reference, here's the relevant lines from lspci -vv

00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Macronix, Inc. [MXIC] MX98713
	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
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
	Region 0: I/O ports at e400 [size=256]
	Region 1: Memory at e0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Expansion ROM at de000000 [disabled] [size=64K]

00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Macronix, Inc. [MXIC] MX98713
	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
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
	Region 0: I/O ports at ec00 [size=256]
	Region 1: Memory at e0102000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Expansion ROM at df000000 [disabled] [size=64K]

TIA
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