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Re: enet syslog messages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig A. Johnston)
Tue Jan 31 04:50:25 1995
From: "Craig A. Johnston" <caj@tower.techwood.org>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 00:08:00 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <199501242215.OAA01896@tower.techwood.org> from "Craig A. Johnston" at Jan 24, 95 02:15:23 pm
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> Hardware: 486/66, ASUS SP3G mboard, 32 megs, Boca PCI Lance enet.
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> Kernel 1.1.85, PCI bridge optimization on.
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> I was having problems with this same setup w/1.1.83 --
> networking kept silently dying. Doesn't happen in 1.1.85, so something
> worked.
I take that back. Dies in 1.1.85 and 1.1.86. It seemed to take longer
in 1.1.86. Never dies without PCI bridge optimization.
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> Now, however, I get these in my syslog. I imagine most of this is
> unnecessary garbage, but will include just in case:
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> Jan 24 12:09:35 tower kernel: eth0: Tx FIFO error! Status 02ea.
> Jan 24 12:11:31 tower kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, status 0062, resetting.
> Jan 24 12:11:31 tower kernel: Ring data dump: dirty_tx 56767 cur_tx 56782 (full) cur_rx 42392.
I got this sort of stuff some time before dying, again w/1.1.86.
