[tulip] Another Presario 1700T breaking under load

Kent Hunt kenthunt@yahoo.com
Thu Oct 24 12:53:11 2002


Hello Donald,

      Did you have a chance to look at this problem
with a Presario 1700T? Did you usually force any
options when loading the driver?

      Thanks,

       Kent


--- Kent Hunt <kenthunt@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 08:03:08 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Kent Hunt <kenthunt@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Another Presario 1700T breaking
> under load
> To: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
> 
> 
> --- Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Kent Hunt wrote:
> > 
> > > I sent this to the tulip list but I was not able
> > to
> > > get your attention. I recall that you mentioned
> > you
> > > have yourself a presario 1700T.
> > 
> > Unfortunately it was stolen just after the Ottawa
> > Linux Symposium.
> > 
> > > I believe I have the
> > > latest tulip.c from your ftp site. However, I do
> > > experience breaks.
> > 
> > What version are you using?
> > 
> > What does 'tulip-diag' report?
> 
> I believe this is the info that you have requeted.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kent
> 
> tulip.c:v0.95c 9/19/2002  Written by Donald Becker
> <becker@scyld.com>
> 
> pci-scan.c:v1.09 1/26/2002  Donald Becker
> <becker@scyld.com>
> 
> pci-scan.h version 1.02 $Version:$ $Date: 2001/03/18
> 21:35:59
> 
> kern_compat.h $Revision: 1.14 $ $Date: 2002/04/11
> 19:58:09 $
> 
> boot message:
> 
> tulip.c:v0.95c 9/19/2002  Written by Donald Becker
> <becker@scyld.com>
>   http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
>   The PCI BIOS has not enabled the device at 0/72! 
> Updating PCI command 0003->0007.
> eth0: Conexant LANfinity rev 8 at 0xe0854000,
> 00:50:8B:AC:CD:00, IRQ 9.
> eth0:  MII transceiver #1 config 1000 status 782d
> advertising 01e1.
> eth0:  MII transceiver #0 config 1000 status 782d
> advertising 01e1.
> 
> Breaks under massive rsync. Symptoms:
> 
> 1. No message left on the logs.
> 2. Go back to normal by bringing down and up eth0
> 3. After break, tulip-diag says:
> 
> tulip-diag.c:v2.15 9/23/2002 Donald Becker
> (becker@scyld.com)
>  http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
> Index #1: Found a Conexant LANfinity adapter at
> 0x1400.
>  Port selection is MII, half-duplex.
>  Transmit started, Receive started.
>   The Rx process state is 'Waiting for packets'.
>   The Tx process state is 'Waiting for Tx to
> finish'.
>   The transmit threshold is 128.
> 
> Kernel 2.4.19.
> 
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