eth0 errors reported on boot after improper shutdown

Jeremy Domingue jer@cybersurfers.net
Tue Apr 18 12:17:46 2000


Yes, I must have rebooted about 5 or 6 times and it's the same thing every
time... I even powered off and swapped the cards in the PCI slot (so eth0 is
now eth1 and vice-versa), and it still reports the errors for eth0 (which
before the swap was eth1 and worked fine).

Jeremy Domingue
jer@cybersurfers.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrey Savochkin" <saw@saw.sw.com.sg>
To: "Jeremy Domingue" <jer@cybersurfers.net>;
<linux-eepro100@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 2:09 AM
Subject: Re: eth0 errors reported on boot after improper shutdown


Hello Jeremy,

On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 12:02:13AM -0700, Jeremy Domingue wrote:
> Well, I have a very interesting problem that I'm hoping someone might be
> able to give me some insight on. Let me start at the beginning..... we had
a
> prolonged power outage and one of our servers lost power without a proper
> shutdown. When I finally got to a console and repowered the sucker, I had
to
> do a manual fsck on the drive and it found numerous problems, but all were
> "corrected". Now, however, when I try to boot the server, when it gets to
> loading the network driver and turning up the ethernet cards, it says
"eth0:
> card reports no RX buffers." and "eth0: card reports no resources." in
what
> appears to be an endless loop. I have tried to correct this to no avail.
We
> have 2 ethernet adapters in the server, and eth1 is fine.... I have tried
> powering off and swapping the two cards to see if it's a hardware problem,
> but eth0 still does the same thing when I swap the cards. I'm not even
sure
> where to begin on this one.... any insight would be greatly appreciated.

So, your cards still do not work OK after several reboots, do they?
That's a bit strange...

The first thing you may do is to try newer driver from
ftp://ftp.sw.com.sg/pub/Linux/people/saw/kernel/
to avoid digging among already solved problems.

Best regards
Andrey V.
Savochkin


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