[vortex] 3c905C Tornado RX errors

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Morten Holm wrote:

> My 3c905C Tornado card gets many errors when receiving data:
> 
> # ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:01:02:17:41:61
>           RX packets:18569 errors:158 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:160
>           TX packets:7519 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:1231 txqueuelen:100

Hmmm, you have a non-zero collision count.

> # mii-diag
> Using the default interface 'eth0'.
> Basic registers of MII PHY #24:  1000 782d 0040 6176 05e1 45e1 0003 0000.
>  The autonegotiated capability is 01e0.
> The autonegotiated media type is 100baseTx-FD.

You negotiated full duplex.

> Where to go from here?

Report the driver version and detection message.
Provide the output of 'cat /proc/net/dev'.
Check the quality of your cabling.

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