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Re: ethernet card/AppleTalk problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Hall)
Fri Aug 25 02:20:54 1995
From: jhall@isdnlin.mtsu.edu (Jeremy Hall)
To: baba@beckman.uiuc.edu
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 08:31:54 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199508230247.VAA24795@flowbee.beckman.uiuc.edu> from "Baba Z Buehler" at Aug 22, 95 09:47:44 pm
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-->The driver for my SMC Ultra card occationally spits out "eth0: transmit timed
-->out" messages. This never seemed to bother anything before, so I didn't worry
-->too much about it.
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-->When I upgraded to 1.3.20, however, I noticed that a few seconds after this
-->would happen, atalkd would decide that all the routers went down. After this,
-->nothing save a reboot will get AppleTalk running again.
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-->Any ideas?
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-->Aug 22 21:41:16 tigger kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, TX status 0x48, ISR 0x0.
-->Aug 22 21:41:16 tigger kernel: eth0: Possible network cable problem?
-->Aug 22 21:41:22 tigger atalkd[81]: as_timer gateway 54272.152 down
-->Aug 22 21:41:22 tigger atalkd[81]: as_timer gateway 54272.1 down
-->Aug 22 21:41:53 tigger atalkd[81]: as_timer gateway 54272.152 down
-->Aug 22 21:41:53 tigger atalkd[81]: as_timer gateway 54272.1 down
-->Aug 22 21:41:53 tigger atalkd[81]: as_timer last gateway down
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-->Thanks,
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I have noticed those problems with the tx status, but not the atalk
thing. What causes the transmit status timed out problems? It has shown
up on all of the ethernet ccards I have seen before.
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