Re: Ongoing problems with sis900.c in 2.4.20pre11

[Andreas Hartmann <andihartmann@freenet.de>]

Hi Stephen,

Stephen R Smoot wrote:
> Hi,
>   You posted a message about a SiS900 problem (see below if you don't
>   recall).  I think I may be seeing the same thing in 2.4.19.  Do you
>   know in what kernel it works?

I don't know any kernel which resolved this problem. Since I posted this 
message in the lkml, I got about 4 questions like yours - and I have to 
tell always the same.
I think there is no interest to fix this problem :-( - or I didn't see the 
fix.


Regards,
Andreas Hartmann



> Ongoing problems with sis900.c in 2.4.20pre11
> From: Andreas Hartmann (andihartmann@freenet.de)
> Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 12:53:06 EST 
> 
> Hello all, 
> 
> 
> though the new bug fix for Tx timeout from Mufasa Yang in Rev 1.08.06, the 
> problem is not fixed at all. The problem appeares now not quite often as 
> before. 
> 
> 
> 
> I can find the following logentries in /var/log/messages: 
> 
> 
> Oct 24 19:40:25 susi kernel: eth0: Media Link Off 
> Oct 24 19:40:35 susi kernel: eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex 
> Oct 24 19:40:36 susi kernel: eth0: Media Link Off 
> Oct 24 19:40:46 susi kernel: eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex 
> Oct 24 19:40:47 susi kernel: eth0: Media Link Off 
> Oct 24 19:40:57 susi kernel: eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex 
> Oct 24 19:40:58 susi kernel: eth0: Media Link Off 
> Oct 24 19:41:07 susi kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out 
> Oct 24 19:41:07 susi kernel: eth0: Transmit timeout, status 00000004 
> 00000000 
> Oct 24 19:41:08 susi kernel: eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex 
> Oct 24 19:41:09 susi kernel: eth0: Media Link Off 
> Oct 24 19:41:18 susi kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out 
> Oct 24 19:41:18 susi kernel: eth0: Transmit timeout, status 00000004 
> 00000040 
> Oct 24 19:41:19 susi kernel: eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex 
> Oct 24 19:41:20 susi kernel: eth0: Media Link Off 
> Oct 24 19:41:30 susi kernel: eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex 
> 
> 
> 
> The problem occures between two sis900-cards (see lspci). You can fix it by 
> restarting the network on one of the two machines (including rmmod sis900). 
> 
> 
> 
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1541 (rev 04) 
>         Subsystem: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] ALI M1541 Aladdin V/V+ AGP 
> System Controller 
>         Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64 
>         Memory at e6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] 
>         Capabilities: [b0] AGP version 1.0 
> 
> 
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5243 (rev 04) (prog-if 00 
> [Normal decode]) 
>         Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64 
>         Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64 
>         I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff 
>         Memory behind bridge: e4800000-e5ffffff 
>         Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e7f00000-e7ffffff 
> 
> 
> 00:03.0 Bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M7101 PMU 
>         Subsystem: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] ALI M7101 Power Management 
> Controller 
>         Flags: medium devsel 
> 
> 
> 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge 
> [Aladdin IV] (rev c3) 
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 
> 
> 
> 00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Xilinx, Inc. RME Digi96 
>         Flags: slow devsel, IRQ 12 
>         Memory at e3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] 
> 
> 
> 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 
> Ethernet (rev 02) 
>         Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet 
> Adapter 
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10 
>         I/O ports at b800 [size=256] 
>         Memory at e2800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] 
>         Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K] 
>         Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1 
> 
> 
> 00:0f.0 IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5229 IDE (rev c1) 
> (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) 
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 
>         I/O ports at b400 [size=16] 
> 
> 
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 
> 1X/2X (rev 5c) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) 
>         Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0084 
>         Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 
>         Memory at e5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] 
>         I/O ports at d800 [size=256] 
>         Memory at e4800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] 
>         Expansion ROM at e7fe0000 [disabled] [size=128K] 
>         Capabilities: [50] AGP version 1.0 
> 
> 
> 
> I would be very happy if this very old problem could be really fixed.