[tulip] Re: Linksys PCMPC200v2 Transmit Timeouts

Tom Reinertson treinertson@uswest.net
Sat, 16 Dec 2000 13:37:15 -0700


Donald Becker wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Tom Reinertson wrote:
>
> > Subject: Re: [tulip] Re: Linksys PCMPC200v2 Transmit Timeouts
> >
> > Well I tried tulip.c:v0.92p and it did not help.  I'm still wondering if
> > the output of the diagnostics doesn't show something really wrong.  It
> > contains the line:
> >
> >  Interrupt sources are pending!  CSR5 is fc674014.
> >
> > That just doesn't seem right.
>
> Yes, that's the problem: the interrupt isn't getting through.
> This is almost always a problem configuring the PCMCIA control code.
> Usually the PCMCIA code chooses working interrupts to use, but sometimes it
> picks bad ones.

Is this a problem inside or outside the driver?  If I start looking at the
tulip code would that help trying to solve this problem or does the problem
exist before it even gets to the driver?

Thanks.

Tom