[vortex] Problems with 3c59x driver network adapter stops working

[Juergen Vigna]

Bogdan Costescu wrote:

> I couldn't find anything in the outputs that would explain the fault :-(

:(

> However, I think that the "working slow" state is different from the 
> "frozen" state. I can't explain at all what change in hardware could 

Yes you're completely right here IMO.

> explain the "working slow" state - any power management would stop traffic 
> completely, duplex mismatch would not produce such delays to small ping 
> packets - so I would look at either routing or the switch.

Well maybe some software on the linux machine (popd) is the culpable,
I have to investigate.

> Talking about power management (in which I have very little knowledge), 
> could you check what are the APM/ACPI setting of the computer and maybe 
> play with them ?

Well I normally don't activate APM on production servers. All APM
management should be off.

> Could you try the driver from Scyld ? If I'm not mistaken the power 
> management is different in this one.

Well as I said I'm not interested in power management I want the
server always full up.

> Could you try 3Com's driver (well, supposing that you could get it to 
> work) ? If my memory doesn't fail me, this one didn't use any power 
> management at all...

I could try this, but I really would like to debug the problems I have
and thereby help you to fix the problem if it is a bug in the driver.
So the above is the last resort I would take.

Thanks for your helpfull comments. I will send you the debug output of
the "sleeping" machine as soon as the problem happens again.

Cheers,

          Jürgen

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