Re: [Repost] Tulip Bug ?

[Thomas Dodd]

Adam Schrotenboer wrote:
> (I can't tell if it made its way to the list......)

It made it both times :)

> I also have some more information. This ethdev is connected to a 
> Efficient Networks Speedstream 5260, which may be the cause of the 
> problems (the modem came w/ a D-Link RTL8139C ethdev, but I replaced 
> both of my ethdevs w/ tulips.) Maybe I need to find out how to program 
> the EEPROM for 10Mbps half duplex ?????
> 
> 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 see it a lot on a Netgear FA310TX
( detected as Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 33)
With both v 1.1.8(June 16,2001) and
v 0.9.15-pre9(Nov 6, 2001)
kernel is 2.4.19-pre2-ac2 but it's been a problem for
months.

> I am getting NETDEV Watchdog timeouts

I only get the NETDEV messages.

> 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).

Using xfs top serve fonts to a Solaris8 box was impossible.
too many timeouts. Same for NFS mounted $HOME (from Solaris)
making it impossible to use the box.

	-Thomas