[vortex] 3c982 RX errors

[Jacek Szeptuch]

Hi
My  3Com PCI 3c982 Dual Port Server Cyclone at 0xd400. Vers LK1.1.16
gets many errors, about 10 per minute.

#
linux-2.4.12-ac3

# /etc/modules.conf
options 3c59x options=8

# dmesg

3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
00:0b.0: 3Com PCI 3c982 Dual Port Server Cyclone at 0xd400. Vers LK1.1.16
00:0b.0:  Media override to transceiver type 8 (Autonegotiate).
eth1: Media override to transceiver 8 (Autonegotiate).

# mii-diag -v eth1
mii-diag.c:v2.01b 5/17/2001 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
 http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
 The autonegotiated capability is 01e0.
The autonegotiated media type is 100baseTx-FD.
 Basic mode control register 0x3000: Auto-negotiation enabled.
 You have link beat, and everything is working OK.
   This transceiver is capable of  100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT.
   Able to perform Auto-negotiation, negotiation complete.
 Your link partner advertised 45e1: Flow-control 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT, w/ 802.3X flow control.
   End of basic transceiver informaion.

 MII PHY #24 transceiver registers:
   3000 782d 0040 6177 05e1 45e1 0003 0000
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
   1000 0321 0000 0002 0000 01c1 0100 0000
   003f fd3e 0f00 ff40 002f 0000 80a0 000b

# cat /proc/net/dev
lo:11723686   76730    0    0    0     0          0         0 11723686   76730    0    0    0     0       0          0
eth0:4192927951 19856884    0    0    0     3          0     65494 952999464 20080211    1    0    0 2603826       0          0
eth1:1211691366 22331386 15874    0 183407 15874          0         0 3433717584 22796124    0    0    0     0       0          0

# ifconfig
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:01:03:D6:5F:4C  
          inet addr:157.158.188.221  Bcast:157.158.189.255  Mask:255.255.254.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:22364920 errors:15895 dropped:0 overruns:183943 frame:15895
          TX packets:22825795 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd400 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:76772 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:76772 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 

Structure my network:
My box (3c95B card) (no RX errors)--- switch (3com superstack ...)---server (3c982 card) with many RX errors.