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, 28 Jan 2003 12:29:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:29:19 -0500 Received: from mout1.freenet.de ([194.97.50.132]:20700 "EHLO mout1.freenet.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:29:16 -0500 Message-ID: <3E36C0D2.1080302@athlon.maya.org> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 18:41:38 +0100 From: Andreas Hartmann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20030125 X-Accept-Language: de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen R Smoot CC: Kernel-Mailingliste Subject: Re: Ongoing problems with sis900.c in 2.4.20pre11 References: <1157976531.20030127174314@alum.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <1157976531.20030127174314@alum.mit.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.71.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 [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.