Re: Ultra 1 ethernet problem
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 06:37:04PM +0200, Nenad Antonic wrote:
> I have Ultra Creator 1 (SUNW,501-4291) with HAPPY MEAL (SBUS) onboard
> ethernet adapter. It's running woody and kernel 2.4.18 from the
> distribution.
>
> Every few days, usually under some network load (which is in general
> modest), the network connection breaks, while ifconfig eth0 reports the
> card UP and running. In the logs there are messages like this:
>
> syslog:Apr 14 11:53:16 simbol kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> syslog:Apr 14 11:53:16 simbol kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, resetting
> syslog:Apr 14 11:53:16 simbol kernel: eth0: Happy Status 03030000
> TX[000003ff:00000301]
> syslog:Apr 14 11:53:20 simbol kernel: eth0: Link is up using internal
> transceiver at 100Mb/s, Full Duplex.
>
> At first glance, it looks like a hardware problem, but:
> 1. shutdown -r repairs the problem
> 2. escape to <ok> prompt allows to boot it over the network
> 3. Ultra was working fine under Solaris (the disk was replaced, so I
> cannot easily run new tests)
>
> Is this a known problem?
> Could it possibly be caused by a buggy ethernet driver, and what would
> be a good way to test it (i.e. if I recompile the kernel myself, how can
> I be sure that I am using different source for the driver)?
Can you tell me which version of the kernel-image-2.4.18-sun4u package
you have installed?
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