Netgear FA310TX Problems

[David Carlin]

Hello,
	I have two identical machines (Both PPro-200's running RedHat 6.0
w/v0.91 of tulip driver) with Netgear FA310TX cards in them that started
acting up yesterday.  The cards are hooked into a 10Mbit network via a
UTP->Fiber transceiver.  The machines will stay online only for about 10
minutes now. The interesting part is, when I put a 10/100 netgear switch
between the campus network and the card (plug card into switch, plug
UTP->FO Xver into uplink port on switch), it works fine for hours on end.

Thanks for your help!

Here is what I am seeing on the console (when debug=2):

Oct 26 14:58:16 vorlon kernel: eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 33 at 0xfc00, 00:A0:CC:3D:2F:CC, IRQ 9. 
Oct 26 14:58:16 vorlon kernel: eth0:  MII transceiver #1 config 1000 status 782d advertising 01e1. 
Oct 26 14:58:13 vorlon network: Bringing up interface eth0 succeeded 
Oct 26 14:58:17 vorlon kernel: eth0: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 814e0000. 
Oct 26 14:58:21 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x02670050. 
Oct 26 15:01:38 vorlon kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 7fffbfff! 
Oct 26 15:01:38 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:38 vorlon kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 7fffbfff! 
Oct 26 15:01:38 vorlon kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 7fffbfff! 
Oct 26 15:01:38 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:38 vorlon kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 7fffbfff! 
Oct 26 15:01:38 vorlon kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 7fffbfff! 
Oct 26 15:01:38 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:38 vorlon kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 7fffbfff! 
Oct 26 15:01:38 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:38 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:38 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x02630050. 
Oct 26 15:01:38 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x022b0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:39 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:39 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x02630050. 
Oct 26 15:01:39 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:39 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:39 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026b0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:39 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:39 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026b0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:39 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x022f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:39 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x022f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:39 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x02230050. 
Oct 26 15:01:39 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x022f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:39 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:40 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x02630050. 
Oct 26 15:01:40 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:40 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x02630050. 
Oct 26 15:01:40 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:40 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026b0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:40 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:40 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026b0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:40 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:41 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x02630050. 
Oct 26 15:01:41 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x02630050. 
Oct 26 15:01:41 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:41 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x02630050. 
Oct 26 15:01:41 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:41 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:41 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x02630050. 
Oct 26 15:01:42 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x02630050. 
Oct 26 15:01:42 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:42 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x02630050. 
Oct 26 15:01:42 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026b0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:42 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:42 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:42 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026b0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:42 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:42 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x02630050. 
Oct 26 15:01:42 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x02630050. 
Oct 26 15:01:42 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:42 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026b0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:42 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:42 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x02630050. 
Oct 26 15:01:42 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026b0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:42 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x02630050. 
Oct 26 15:01:42 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:42 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026b0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:43 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:43 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x02630050. 
Oct 26 15:01:43 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x02630050. 
Oct 26 15:01:43 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026b0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:43 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:43 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x02630050. 
Oct 26 15:01:43 vorlon kernel: eth0: Too much work during an interrupt, csr5=0x026f0050. 
Oct 26 15:01:43 vorlon kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 7fff8301! 
Oct 26 15:01:47 vorlon kernel: eth0: Transmit timeout using MII device. 

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David Carlin -- djc6@po.cwru.edu | Unix Administrator, EECS Dept.
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