To Donald Becker (The Rocket Scientist)

[Dave Morse]

Mob-Rules writes:
 > I know you are busy but this problem has been with tulip.c since the
 > beginning, and since I guess my previous plea for help was lost I will
 > ask again.
 > 
 > Why do I get a gadzillion
 > eth1: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 816e0000.
 > eth1: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 812e0000.
 > eth1: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 816e0000.
 > eth1: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 812e0000.
 > all the time I am up and running I get those meesages in the log.
 > 
 > I also have a problem that a simple warm reboot is not sufficent as it
 > will never sync up after my 3rd reboot.  So, I have to do a cold reboot
 > and then sometimes follow that with a warm reboot and it is back to 3
 > warm reboots.
 > I have two cards and both do this only in Linux  as Windows does not
 > seem to have this problem.
 > 
 > Oct  3 06:27:44 ci835178-a kernel: eth1: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC at 0xec00,
 > 00 a0 cc 21 06 5b, IRQ 10.
 > Oct  3 06:27:44 ci835178-a kernel: eth1:  MII transceiver found at MDIO
 > address 1, config 0000 status 7829.
 > Oct  3 06:27:45 ci835178-a kernel: eth1: Changing PNIC configuration to
 > half-duplex, CSR6 816e0000.
 > 
 > I was using .91 (something) and fell back to .89h but it doesn't matter
 > which version I use on the above problems.
 > 
 > Thanks.

I have 4 tulip based cards, and I see this behavior on only the oldest
card-computer pair.

Doesn't seem to happen this month though.

If there is some way I can help please drop me a line.

David Morse
morse@nichimen.com