problem with tulip driver

[Jerry Normandin]

Hi,


I also had this problem, I upgraded to kernel 2.2.14 and the problem
went away.  The box is a PowerMac 9600 w/96MB RAM, LinkSYS
ethernet/tulip
card, and internal MACE controller.  This machine is set up as my
home's gateway ->internet via Media One (Cable Modem)
When running 2.2.6 my Linuxksys card would fail with 
 kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out, status e43e0000, CSR12 000050ca,
 resetting...
This problem looked like more a PCI bus problem to me, so I upgraded to
Linux 2.2.14,  I am using the same tulip driver (recompiled), the
problem 
is gone.  I tried like hell to lock up the modem, so far so good!




Nick Holmes wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Most of the time the tulip driver that I am using for an on-board ethernet
> controller [identifiing itself as Macronix 98715 PMAC adapter at 0xd000.]
> works fine, but from time to time I get the following message :
> 
> kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out, status e43e0000, CSR12 000050ca,
> resetting...
> 
> At this point,  interface has gone down ... and it then stays down.  the
> machine happily continues to run everything but the all important network
> interface.
> 
> my kernel version is:
> 
> Linux 2.2.10 #3 Thu Nov 25 14:34:56 GMT 1999 i686 unknown
> 
> & I am using the 0.91g version of the tulip driver.
> 
> If there are operating reasons for upgrading, I will do so, but I would
> prefer not to if I don't have a reasonable probablility of removing this
> rather painful bug.
> 
> any help with this problem would be very much appreciated
> 
> TIA
> 
> nick
> 
> oh, and basic diag output is:
> 
> tulip-diag.c:v1.19 10/2/99 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
> Index #1: Found a Macronix 98715 PMAC adapter at 0xd000.
>   Port selection is 10mpbs-serial 100baseTx scrambler, full-duplex.
>   Transmit started, Receive started, full-duplex.
>    The Rx process state is 'Waiting for packets'.
>    The Tx process state is 'Idle'.
>    The transmit threshold is 72.
>   Use '-a' or '-aa' to show device registers,
>       '-e' to show EEPROM contents, -ee for parsed contents,
>    or '-m' or '-mm' to show MII management registers.
> 
> Nick Holmes - Systems Manager
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