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Re: Still getting some errors with SMC Ultra in .83
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter K)
Mon Jan 23 05:59:37 1995
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 11:37:35 +0200 (GMT+0200)
From: Peter K <pko@kiko.paradigm.co.za>
To: Baba Z Buehler <baba@beckman.uiuc.edu>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199501220301.VAA04365@tigger.beckman.uiuc.edu>
Baba Z Buehler wrote:
> Jan 21 12:29:56 tigger kernel: eth0: No packet buffer space for ping-pong use.
> Jan 21 03:35:20 tigger kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status 0x01
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> and I get a lot of these if our local net is really busy...
>
> Jan 20 09:39:02 tigger kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, TX status 0x48, ISR 0x0
Hmmm. Could it be you are running an SMC Elite with the Ultra xxx690xx
chip ? Our experience is that these cards are known to give trouble on
certain hardware combinations under Dos (yech !) and Windoze (ditto).
I've been running .83 since Jan 16 on a SMC Elite 16 combo using the
xxx790x chip. Witin our organisation there are at least another 2 boxes
running Linux, one on .76 with an identical card, the other also on .83
but with an SMC Elite 16 TE, all on 486DX2/66, 16 Mb, etc, and in our
experience Donald has done a great job.
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