[2219] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Lots of 'Tx timed out' in 1.3.75
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Gortmaker)
Fri Mar 22 17:32:52 1996
From: Paul Gortmaker <gpg109@rsphy1.anu.edu.au>
To: Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6nig?=)
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 09:14:06 +1100 (EST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199603181350.OAA02381@mvmap66.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de> from "Thomas =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6nig?=" at Mar 18, 96 02:50:24 pm
> Ever since 1.3.75 (didn't run 1.3.7[234]), I get strange Ethernet
> messages, such as
>
> eth0: reset did not complete at ei_rx_overrun.
>
> or
>
> eth0: Tx timed out, cable problem? TSR=0x40, ISR=0x0, t=100.
> eth0: Tx timed out, cable problem? TSR=0x0, ISR=0x0, t=2651.
>
> (There always was one of these at bootup time, which I ignored, but there
> are far more of them now).
The one at boot is because if the 1st Tx fails, the 8390 driver tries
to switch media interfaces, if the card supports it.
> This is for a PCI P90, 3c503 ethernet card.
3c503 or 3c503/16? (8bit vs. 16bit) Are you using the PIO mode of the
card? There were some recent changes (not by me) to the PIO portion of
the driver recently (1.3.70 -> present). I haven't had a chance to
review them in the light of the 503 tech man yet to see what the goal
was. I didn't think much of it, since I strongly discourage people
from using the card in anything but the shared memory mode anyway.
Paul.
