SMC Ultra EtherEZ slowdown

[David Welton <davidw@gate.cks.com>]

Hi, I've noticed an odd problem..

I've got a 2.0.33 machine running Debian GNU/Linux, with a:

smc-ultra.c:v2.00 6/6/96 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
eth0: SMC EtherEZ at 0x240, 00 00 C0 DE 81 E2,EEPROM IRQ 10
programmed-I/O mode.

installed.  It seems to work fine, but every few days, I get messages
like these:

Jan 27 13:31:33 ecglaf kernel: <7>eth0: Tx timed out, cable problem?
TSR=0xc0, ISR=0x0, t=59. 

Jan 27 19:34:09 ecglaf kernel: <7>eth0: Tx timed out, cable problem?
TSR=0xc0, ISR=0x0, t=60. 

Jan 27 20:30:01 ecglaf kernel: <4>eth0: Too much work at interrupt,
status 0x01 

After which the networking seems to slow down noticeably, but not die
altogether.  I took a brief look at the kernel code generating these
messages, in 8390.c, but I really dont have much of an idea of what's
going on there.

Any ideas?  Other places to ask?

Thanks,
-- 
David Welton                          http://www.efn.org/~davidw 

	Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org


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