[vortex] Strange errors from 3c509B driver

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:

> has 3 3C509B cards.

The detection message says that you have 3C905B cards, which are very
different from 3C509 (without B).

> One of the links was upgraded to 100 Mb/s, and ... the other end is
> supposed to be a 100 Mb/s FD switch port.

> eth1: Transmit error, Tx status register 82.
>   Flags; bus-master 1, full 0; dirty 1582001(1) current 1582001(1).
> eth1: Transmit error, Tx status register 82.
>   Flags; bus-master 1, full 0; dirty 1582322(2) current 1582322(2).

According to http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html, Tx status 82 means
out-of-window error, happening when a half vs. full-duplex mismatch
appears.
Please run 'mii-diag -v' which should show what are the media settings in
use.

Sincerely,

Bogdan Costescu

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