Inifinitive retransmission and timeout

[MHC]

>
>
> >  I used a RTL8139 PCI board.
> >  The MB is Cyrix MediaGX 200MHz
> >  (with 5520 companion chipset.)
> >  The driver is 0.99B (coming along with
> >  kernel 2.0.34 of  Slackware 3.5).
> >
> >  I found if some application goes wrong,
> >  the driver got stuck by retransmitting an
> >  outgoing packet indefintively, each time
> >  it prints a message after failure.
> >
> >  Eth0 transmit timeout, status 0d, 00000
>
> This should be fixed by v1.03, which recovers from Tx underruns (the usual
> source of the problem), and completely resets the chip on a timeout.
>

Donald,

Have you posted 1.03 somewhere or not yet ?
I've downloaded and tested 1.00F dated Aug 12 from
ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/test/rtl8139.c.
It suffers the same problem, except printing with  more
verbosome error messages.

  Regards
  M.H. Chou

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