rtl8139 problems

Eddie Atherton ipmask@ibm.net
Thu Sep 3 04:49:32 1998


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Me too, me too. (Sorry, couldn't resist that. I feel I missed out somewhere
never having sent one before <G>).

Anyway, I have 2 machines both with 100Mbit cards with the RTL8139 chip,
both running the 1.00F version of the driver.

One machine can send and receive without problems. The second machine can
send OK, but the card freezes up solid when it tries to receive more that a
few bytes of data.

I turned up the debug level, tried to receive some data and then captured
the resultant debug and messages files from /var/log. These are in the
attached file.

Hopefully that 'should' provide enough information to see what's happening.

Also, sad to report, that I too have NO problems running the same 2
machines under Micro$oft Windoze NitwiT. Both machines can send and receive
to their hearts content.

Cheers,

Eddie
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