Fially got the new 0.99E installed, but .... ;)

Ronny Iversen ronnyi@ifi.uio.no
Wed Sep 9 05:37:21 1998


Its still not working properly :(
This is a snippet from /var/log/messages

Sep  9 23:22:36 birk113 kernel: Appletalk 0.17 for Linux NET3.035

/**here the driver is loaded all right... **/
Sep  9 23:22:36 birk113 kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99E 5/12/98 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
Sep  9 23:22:36 birk113 kernel: loading device 'eth0'...
Sep  9 23:22:36 birk113 kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at
0xd000, ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, IRQ 10
Sep  9 23:22:36 birk113 kernel:   1024K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split,
autoselect/NWay Autonegotiation interface.
Sep  9 23:22:36 birk113 kernel:   Enabling bus-master transmits and early
receives.
Sep  9 23:22:38 birk113 named[300]: starting.  named 4.9.6-REL Tue May  5
19:03:42 EDT 1998 ^Iroot@porky.redhat.com:/usr/src/bs/BUILD/bind-4.9.6/named
Sep  9 23:22:38 birk113 named[300]: cache zone "" loaded (serial 0)
Sep  9 23:22:38 birk113 named[300]: primary zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa"
loaded (serial 1997022700)

Sep  9 23:22:38 birk113 named[301]: Ready to answer queries. 
Sep  9 23:22:38 birk113 dhcpd: Internet Software Consortium DHCPD $Name:
V2-BETA-1 $
Sep  9 23:22:38 birk113 dhcpd: Copyright 1995, 1996 The Internet Software
Consortium.
Sep  9 23:22:38 birk113 dhcpd: All rights reserved.
Sep  9 23:22:38 birk113 dhcpd: Can't open /etc/dhcpd.conf: No such file or
directory
Sep  9 23:22:38 birk113 dhcpd: exiting.
/********but I keep getting thiese error messages, what is this anybody? :)
 *************/
Sep  9 23:22:46 birk113 kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status ff
status ffff.
Sep  9 23:22:46 birk113 kernel: eth0: Transmitter encountered 16 collisions
-- network cable problem?
Sep  9 23:22:46 birk113 kernel: eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered --
IRQ blocked by another device?
Sep  9 23:22:46 birk113 kernel: eth0: Updating statistics failed, disabling
stats as an interrupt source.

/*this message spams my login now and then, I got no idea what it means. */
Sep  9 23:22:46 birk113 kernel: eth0: Host error, FIFO diagnostic register
ffff.
Sep  9 23:22:46 birk113 last message repeated 20 times
Sep  9 23:22:46 birk113 kernel: eth0: Too much work in interrupt, status
ffff.  Temporarily disabling functions (7800).

Can anybody understand whats going on here? 

Ok thanx
			Ronny Iversen