[tulip] Re: eth0 resets every 5 mins!

[Jonah Michaud]

Just in case someone else finds it helpful.  From the debug I
noticed it seemed to start happening when the autonegotiation
switches to 100baseT-FD (which it then remains in forever).  I
fixed this by commenting out:

   if (tp->flags & HAS_NWAY)
      tp->link_change = nway_lnk_change;
   else if (tp->flags & HAS_PNICNWAY)
      tp->link_change = pnic_lnk_change;

apparently that makes the driver stay in 10baseT mode.  I'm
sure that's not the right way to do it but I couldn't bring up
the interface when I tried using the "options" options for the
10baseT media. 

So far the interface hasn't reset even once, so that must have
been it.


--- Jonah Michaud <unixj@yahoo.com> wrote:
> My card is a LinkSys Etherfast 10/100, I'm running Mandrake
> 7.2
> with the standard kernel, 2.2.17mdk.  Every 5 minutes on
> average my connection hangs and there is the following
> message:
> 
> localhost kernel: eth0: Tx hung, 15728 vs. 15723.
> localhost kernel: eth0: PNIC2 transmit timed out, status
> e4000000, CSR6/7 01000000 / effffbff CSR12 41e1d0cc,
> resetting...
> 
> I was assuming it was due to my RoadRunner connection or
> maybe
> the RCA cable modem.  Because I have 2 relatives with the
> exact
> same hardware/OS/everything except they're using @home and a
> different modem.  It's been happening ever since I got a
> cable
> modem about 2 months ago and I've spent hours trying to
> contact
> RoadRunner but no one ever picks up the phone or replies to
> email.
> 
> Today I tried replacing the tulip from Mandrake (version
> 0.921)
> with the test one (0.92t) but it doesn't seem to help.
> 
> Is there any number I can change in tulip.c to help the
> driver
> work around this problem?  Thanks!
> 
> 
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