e601 / e201

[Kevin Ford]

> Hello,
> 
> I have just upgraded from old DEC ISA 10mips to lovely 3com905-TX cards (I
> am not using a hub - I am using a direct cable with the 'twist' - I have
> lights, and the cable worked with the DECs). However on my 'lesser'
> machine
> I am getting the following message at my console Login prompt just before
> xdm starts up X.
> 
> eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e601.
> eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device?
> 
> This is followed every couple of minutes by:
> 
> eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e201
> eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device?
> 
> It finds an IRQ OK, and I can vouch for all the other parts of the system
> and have found their IRQ's in the /proc/interrupts file. It's a fairly old
> machine (two of the ISA ports have a local bus port!!!), I was wondering
> whether the motherboard could be a physical limitation on the
> bus-mastering
> capabilities of the card, or am I barking up totally the wrong tree? I
> managed to install the other card in my K6-2 without problems, and I've
> managed to swap them as well (I assume without problems, there are no
> error
> messages, and pinging from it 'lights the lights' on the 'lesser' box, but
> obviously I get no return). Both boxes can ping themselves. I've forced
> them
> in the EEPROM to run 100Mbps full-duplex.
> 
> So why doesn't it work???
> 
> Kevin Ford
> NT Support
> x2064