From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262083AbULQRRG (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:17:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262079AbULQRRG (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:17:06 -0500 Received: from boa.mtg-marinetechnik.de ([62.153.155.10]:65006 "EHLO cascabel.mtg-marinetechnik.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262078AbULQRPo (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:15:44 -0500 Message-ID: <41C31421.7090102@mtg-marinetechnik.de> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:15:13 +0100 From: Richard Ems Organization: MTG Marinetechnik GmbH User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: en, de, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Mason Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org References: <200412171100.16601.richard.ems@mtg-marinetechnik.de> <89245775041217090726eb2751@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <89245775041217090726eb2751@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Network hang: "eth0: Tx timed out (f0080), is buffer full?" (Plain) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jon Mason wrote: > It seems to me the cause of the tx timeouts is the "HostError", which > is a PCI bus error. This most likely caused the adapter to hang and > then the transmits started timing out. > > As far as I can tell, the dl2k driver code is common between 2.4 and > 2.6. So, some other change in the kernel is causing the driver to > behave differently and expose this problem. > > I am not the maintainer, but I can try to assist you. However, it will > require running debug drivers (as I am not able to find any > documentation on this adapter). If you are not willing or able to do > this, then I would suggest going back to the 2.4 kernel. Ok, yes, I'm willing to try your debug drivers. We'll see if I'm also able ;-) What shall I do? Thanks ,Richard -- Richard Ems MTG Marinetechnik GmbH Wandsbeker Königstr. 62 22041 Hamburg Telefon: +49 40 65803 312 TeleFax: +49 40 65803 392 mail: richard.ems@mtg-marinetechnik.de