Re: curious Ethernet errors
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Dean Allen Provins wrote:
: System is Debian 2.1 (up to date) on Pentium, 64 MB, with NIC (from
: dmesg),
:
: eth0: PCnet/ISA 79C960 at 0x340, 00 00 f4 b1 84 e7, probed IRQ 12, DMA 7.
: lance.c:v1.14ac 1998/11/20 dplatt@3do.com, becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
:
: The error message that appears in 'dmesg' at various times after
: booting is:
:
: eth0: transmit timed out, status 0062, resetting.
: Ring data dump: dirty_tx 118 cur_tx 134 (full) cur_rx 58.
: 83c09800 0608 00b6 83d3b800 0608 0040 83d3b000 0608 0040 83d3a800 0608 00b6
: 83d3a000 0608 0076 83d39800 0608 0040 83d39000 0608 0040 83d38800 0608 00b6
: 83d38000 0608 0040 83fd7800 0608 0076 83fd7000 0608 00ea 83fd6800 0608 00b6
: 83fd6000 0608 0044 83fd5800 0608 00b6 83fd5000 0608 0041 83fd4800 0608 0040
: 83ff0000 002a 0000 83f26002 04fe 0000 83c09002 05ea 0000 83c08802 05ea 0000
: 83ff1820 002a 0000 83ff1e28 002a 0000 83fd4002 04fe 0000 83ff2a38 05ea 0000
: 83ff3040 05ea 0000 83c08002 04fe 0000 83f27002 05ea 0000 83f26802 05ea 0000
: 83f27802 04fe 0000 83ff4e68 05ea 0000 83ff5470 05ea 0000 83ff5a78 002a 0000
:
: Note that error messages of this form, but different content appear
: irregularly, but frequently (2 in < 24 hours this time).
:
: Is the NIC bad, or do I have another problem?
I think it's a driver problem - I saw this quite a bit on one of our
servers with onboard Lance. I installed a NetGear tulip card and
haven't seen the problem since :) I do have to admit that I never
actually noticed a "problem" other than the error message, but since it
was a server I wasn't taking any chances.
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Nathan Norman
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