From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263632AbTI2Pun (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:50:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263634AbTI2Pun (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:50:43 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:28812 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263632AbTI2Pum (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:50:42 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Andreas Schwarz Subject: 8139too & APIC incompatibility (2.6.0-test6-mm1, 2.4.20) Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 15:47:29 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-TCPA-ist-scheisse: yes User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org When APIC is activated, the following messages appear in syslog from time to time: kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out kernel: eth1: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0. kernel: eth1: Tx descriptor 0 is 00002000. (queue head) kernel: eth1: Tx descriptor 1 is 00002000. kernel: eth1: Tx descriptor 2 is 00002000. kernel: eth1: Tx descriptor 3 is 00002000. kernel: eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 After this has happened the first time, the card fails to send or receive any more packages. The problem exists in both tested Kernel versions (2.6.0-test6-mm1 and 2.4.20). lspci -v: 00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RT8139 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5 I/O ports at d400 [size=256] Memory at cfffde00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Expansion ROM at cffe0000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2