[vortex] 3c59x not responding after some idle time

Kai Duebbert kai@duebbert.de
Tue, 10 Jul 2001 21:13:37 +0200


> Was this information gathered while the machine was in its
> unresponsive mode?  If not, could you please gather this info
> when the NIC is misbehaving?

Ok, I was able to do it tonight. To make it a bit easier, I 
did a diff between the working and the broken debug-output.
Here is the information (it only differs in "./vortex-diag -aaee"):

--- debug.working   Tue Jul 10 21:10:14 2001
+++ debug.broken    Tue Jul 10 21:11:10 2001
@@ -4,19 +4,19 @@
 Index #1: Found a 3c905B Cyclone 10/100/BNC adapter at 0x9800.
 The Vortex chip may be active, so FIFO registers will not be read.
 To see all register values use the '-f' flag.
-Initial window 4, registers values by window:
+Initial window 7, registers values by window:
   Window 0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 f5f5 00bf 0000 0000.
   Window 1: FIFO FIFO 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 2000.
   Window 2: 0400 1476 94b5 0000 0000 0000 000a 4000.
   Window 3: 0000 0110 05ea 0000 003a 0800 0800 6000.
-  Window 4: 0000 00d1 0000 0cc0 0001 0808 0000 8000.
+  Window 4: 0000 00d1 0000 0cc0 0000 0808 0000 8000.
   Window 5: 1ffc 0000 0000 0600 0807 06ce 06c6 a000.
-  Window 6: 0400 0000 0000 1400 0000 072c 0140 c000.
+  Window 6: 0000 0000 0000 d100 0000 4c35 0000 c000.
   Window 7: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 e000.
 Vortex chip registers at 0x9800
-  0x9810: **FIFO** 00000000 00000012 *STATUS*
+  0x9810: **FIFO** 00000000 0000000d *STATUS*
   0x9820: 00000020 00000000 00080000 00000004
-  0x9830: 00000000 ac3853c8 1a05a170 00080004
+  0x9830: 00000000 0bd5f42b 1a05a070 00080004
  Indication enable is 06c6, interrupt enable is 06ce.
  No interrupt sources are pending.
  Transceiver/media interfaces available:  100baseTx 10baseT 10base2 AUI10baseFL.

Regards,
Kai

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