Version 0.40 with 3c900 sporadically spaces out

[M. Sievers]

On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, William Pietri wrote:

> 
> I'm using Red Hat Linux 4.2 on a box that has, until recently, been very
> well behaved. I just moved it to a new location, though, and every few
> hours the ethernet interface seems to go wonky and refuse to talk to the
> outside world anymore. I've tried a couple of different cables and
> different hubs in an effort to fix the problem. Things are complicated by
> the fact that the box resides in a colocated cabinet 2000 miles away from
> me.
[...]
> 
> Things work fine for anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours, and then I
> get something like this in the logs:
> 
> kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 88 status e000.

[...]

Hi,

you definitely want to upgrade your driver, this problem is known. Newer
versions of this driver have banned these problems from my 3c900. I'm
using v0.99H, get that one or a later one from
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html

I'm positive it will help you too.

Bye,
Mike

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Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time.
To be specific the "Plug" almost always works.            --unknown source