[tulip] eth0: transmit timed out

[Donald Becker]

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Jim McCloskey wrote:

> With linux kernel version 2.4.18, and the tulip ethernet driver, we
> are suddenly seeing here problems that did not occur with earlier
> kernel versions but which are of a type that have been reported
> before.
...
> Oct  7 21:30:34 localhost kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> Oct  7 21:30:34 localhost kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out, status
>     fc664010, CSR12 00000000, resetting...
...
> Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre9 (Nov 6, 2001)
> PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:09.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:04.2
> eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0xd000, 00:20:78:1F:1E:64, IRQ 10.
...
> I've found lots of references to similar-sounding problems, but no
> definitive suggestion or solution.

As I usually respond, the solution is

mkdir /tmp/netdrivers/
cd /tmp/netdrivers/
ncftp ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdrivers.tgz
tar xfvz netdrivers.tgz
make
make install

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