[vortex] One more 3c905 problem :(

[David Nordenberg]

> > First death of eth1: http://217.210.183.83/eth1_dies.log
> ...
> > I hardly believe that this is enough info for you to fix the problem
>
> This report makes it very clear what has happened: the NIC has stopped
> responding.
>
> My guess:
> Your card is overheating or overloading the power supply
> because of the added workload of 100baseTx, and shutting down.  You are
> reviving it by power cycling the machines.
>
> If it still responds to PCI configuration space accesses, you can try to
> revive it in software by using 'pci-config' to put it into D3-warm power
> down state and then bringing it back to D0 state.   But the real
> solution is to improve the power supply or cooling.

The maching now has a 200W powersupply and that might be to small but should
the card really need so much more power in 100mbit state? I also tried to
make the card work hard with a ping -f at 100mbit and then felt if it was
getting hot but not very much hotter then in idle10mbit state, at both times
it hung, the card was almost idle, around 50kb total traffic/min.

Next time is hungs I try to put in a 250W PSU and put a 80mm fan under the
card to be sure.

Thanks for the tips.

Regards David Nordenberg