new info WAS: Re: [tulip] LNE100TX version 4.1 timeouts on tx

[Donald Becker]

On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Erik Steffl wrote:

>   after having problems described below I tried to move the LNE100TX to
> different PCI slot and now it's all different. Soundcard works OK (it
> used to play only about 1 second of sound when network card used to be
> in original slot).

That's the symptom of a sound card on a blocked or invalid interrupt line.

>   however, now the network card hangs up, not sure if it's tx or rx
> (probably tx judging by the messages below).

You have just moved the configuration problem from your sound card to the
network card.

>   I get plenty of messages like this one (all of them are exactly the
> same):
> 
> eth0: Transmit timed out, status fc664010, CSR12 00000000, resetting...

Run 'tulip-diag'.


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