From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 05:57:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 05:56:51 -0500 Received: from mail.zmailer.org ([194.252.70.162]:65030 "EHLO zmailer.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 05:56:41 -0500 Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:56:36 +0200 From: Matti Aarnio To: David Ford Cc: Jeff Garzik , LKML Subject: Re: NETDEV timeout on tulips [was: Re: 2.4.1-test10] Message-ID: <20010123125636.I25659@mea-ext.zmailer.org> In-Reply-To: <3A6CF5B7.57DEDA11@linux.com> <3A6D2D54.619AFA7E@mandrakesoft.com> <3A6D616F.63EB34A6@linux.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3A6D616F.63EB34A6@linux.com>; from david@linux.com on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:48:16AM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:48:16AM +0000, David Ford wrote: > The three cardbus cards are slightly different in numerous ways. For > them they normally fault with an APM event, an eject/insert cycle via > software will reset hem and a link down/up won't fix it. For the PCI > cards most times a link down/up cycle will fix them. It's a 2.4 v.s. 2.2 > issue, the 2.2 kernels aren't exhibiting this error. I see that with my AT2800TX cardbus card as well. (Using Tulip driver, no less.) > The PCI cards are hard to get into this state, sometimes they'll run > millions of packets for months on end before they'll burp. Sometimes > it'll happen three times a night. The amount of traffic doesn't seem > to matter, nor does the type of traffic. Sounds like timing issue. > -d /Matti Aarnio - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/