[vortex-bug] Problems with 3c905c

[Andrew Morton]

Bogdan Costescu wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 14 May 2000 r_c_edgar@hotmail.com wrote:
> 
> > I've got a machine with two 3c905c's that keep giving me this:
> > eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000.
> >   Flags; bus-master 1, full 1; dirty 0 current 16.
> >   Transmit list 00000000 vs. c3892a00.
> 
> So you have the card waiting for packets (NULL pointer in DownListPtr)
> while the Tx ring is full. This is caused by the race that was discussed
> on this list.

errrm, no.  It was caused by not starting the download engine.  I
suspect 0.99P was a work-in-progress...

Don has recently put up 0.99Q which uses DPD polling.  That's going to
keep you busy :-)


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