Bug report, as much information as I can give...

[Romanenko Mikhail]

I had another problem with 3Com 905B (and 3Com 980). I wrote to the list about it but nobody answered. Shortly speaking NIC swithed from 100 b/s to 10 b/s after machine reboot.
Hab was hanged often. After I install 3c90x driver from http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/linuxdownload.htm everything has been working fine. Perhaps it helps you too.

Mikhail.

-----Original Message-----
From: Winged Wolf <winged@spastic.org>
To: linux-vortex-bug@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov <linux-vortex-bug@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Date: Mon Dec 27 20:52:06 1999
Subject: Bug report, as much information as I can give...


>Heya, I've got a bit of a problem.  I've got two machines (HP Vectra VLi8
>MTs) with what appear to be 3c509B cards in them.
>
>Trying to install Debian 2.1 (from a CD I bought at Fry's, not marked
>'official'), everything goes wonderfully.  Until I try to bring up the
>network interface.
>
>The symptom is, the module loads properly, but nothing comes in or out.
>tcpdump doesn't show anything going across the line at all.  Can't ping,
>can't be pinged.
>
>I'm using the 3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 driver (the one included with kernel
>revision 2.2.12).
>
>Trying to work around this problem, I've tried the following
>combinations of options:
>options=0 full_duplex=0
>options=8 full_duplex=0
>options=9 full_duplex=0
>
>9 doesn't work, because I'm not using an AUI transceiver.  I'm supposed to
>be using 10baseT, half-duplex.  The hub (Netgear EN104TP) does not show a
>link light.  I've replaced the cable with a Known Good, and swapped the
>port on the hub with a Known Good.
>
>When I start up with:
>options=8 full_duplex=0 debug=9
>
>I get:
>
>eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0x1080, 00:50:da:1c:9d:7d, IRQ 10
>  Internal Config register is 1800000, transceivers 0xa.
>  8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
>  Media override to transceiver type 0 (10baseT).
>  Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
>eth0: Media override to transceiver 0 (10baseT).
>eth0: Initial media type 10baseT.
>
>Then, when I ifconfig eth0 192.6.1.107 netmask 255.255.255.0:
>
>eth0: vortex_open() InternalConfig 01000000.
>eth0: vortex_open() irq 10 media status 8880.
>eth0:  Filling in the Rx ring.
>eth0: Media selection timer tick happened, 10baseT.
>eth0: Media 10baseT has link beat, 88c0.
>eth0: Media selection timer finished, 10baseT.
>
>When I ping a host that I know is up, and is located on the same hub as
>this machine:
>
>eth0: Trying to send a packet, Tx index 0.
>eth0: interrupt, status e201, latency 2 ticks.
>eth0: in interrupt loop, status e201.
>eth0: exiting interrupt, status e000.
>eth0: Trying to send a packet, Tx index 1.
>eth0: interrupt, status e201, latency 2 ticks.
>eth0: In interrupt loop, status e201.
>eth0: exiting interrupt, status e000.
>eth0: Trying to send a packet, Tx index 2.
>eth0: interrupt, status e201, latency 2 ticks.
>eth0: In interrupt loop, status e201.
>eth0: exiting interrupt, status e000.
>eth0: Trying to send a packet, Tx index 3.
>eth0: interrupt, status e201, latency 1 ticks.
>eth0: In interrupt loop, status e201.
>eth0: exiting interrupt, status e000.
>...
>
>And so on.  (It's now on index 50.)  And that was with a single ping
>packet.  (Every 10 seconds or so, it tries 3 more times, one second
>between each try.)
>
>This is -not- the way that things are supposed to be working, I'd assume.
>What information can I give you that will help track this problem down?
>
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>Mat Butler, Winged Wolf                       <winged@spastic.org>
>SPASTIC Web Engineer                  SPASTIC Server Administrator
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