networking problem

[George Karaolides <george@otenet-telecom.com>]

Hi people,

I have a networking problem on several machines running woody and sarge
all with the same hardware:

Abit BP-6 dual celeron motherboard w. celeron 466 processors
Intel etherexpress pro 100 ethernet cards

All machines run Linux kernel 2.4.25

Problem: networking ceases to funcion and only a machine reboot will
restore function.  Stopping networking, unloading the eepro100 module,
reloading and restarting does not work.  Problem seems to appear under
conditions of high load.

Attempted to cure problem by turning off sleep mode, as suggested by the
output of the eepro100-diag utility.  No difference.

Relevant /var/log/messages excerpt:

Apr 15 11:15:45 stephano kernel: unexpected IRQ trap at vector 7d
Apr 15 11:16:20 stephano kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed
out
Apr 15 11:16:20 stephano kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out: status f048 
0c00 at
11611702/11611762 command 000ca000.
Apr 15 11:17:14 stephano kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed
out
Apr 15 11:17:14 stephano kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out: status f048 
0c00 at
11611762/11611822 command 0001a000.

Please cc. any replies to me.  Thanks.

-- 
Best regards,

George Karaolides
System Administrator

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