Hi Recently one computer of mine has some problems with the network adapter. The adapter is a 3Com900 , connected to a cisco switch. The 3c59x module of kernel 2.2.17 is used. In the last couple of days the adapter has needed some manual resets. Looking at the logs, I saw occasional "eth0: transmit timed out error". Most of the times there was "tx_status 00 status e000", but sometimes the status was f000. At a first glance this looks like some sort of hardware problem, resulting with the card unable to transmit frames and forced to drop some. But anyway: what do those error code mean? where can I find a a reference? Thanks For the record: one such message: Feb 23 09:20:25 meron kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Feb 23 09:20:25 meron kernel: Flags; bus-master 1, full 1; dirty 498441 current 498457. Feb 23 09:20:25 meron kernel: Transmit list 00000000 vs. c1a92a90. Feb 23 09:20:25 meron kernel: 0: @c1a92a00 length 8000002a status 0000002a Feb 23 09:20:25 meron kernel: 1: @c1a92a10 length 8000002a status 0000002a Feb 23 09:20:25 meron kernel: 2: @c1a92a20 length 80000043 status 00000043 Feb 23 09:20:25 meron kernel: 3: @c1a92a30 length 80000043 status 00000043 Feb 23 09:20:25 meron kernel: 4: @c1a92a40 length 8000002a status 0000002a Feb 23 09:20:25 meron kernel: 5: @c1a92a50 length 8000002a status 0000002a Feb 23 09:20:25 meron kernel: 6: @c1a92a60 length 8000002a status 0000002a Feb 23 09:20:25 meron kernel: 7: @c1a92a70 length 8000002a status 8000002a Feb 23 09:20:25 meron kernel: 8: @c1a92a80 length 80000043 status 80000043 Feb 23 09:20:25 meron kernel: 9: @c1a92a90 length 80000057 status 00000057 Feb 23 09:20:25 meron kernel: 10: @c1a92aa0 length 8000003e status 0000003e Feb 23 09:20:25 meron kernel: 11: @c1a92ab0 length 80000057 status 00000057 Feb 23 09:20:25 meron kernel: 12: @c1a92ac0 length 8000003e status 0000003e Feb 23 09:20:25 meron kernel: 13: @c1a92ad0 length 80000043 status 00000043 Feb 23 09:20:25 meron kernel: 14: @c1a92ae0 length 80000043 status 00000043 Feb 23 09:20:25 meron kernel: 15: @c1a92af0 length 80000057 status 00000057 Feb 23 09:20:25 meron kernel: eth0: Resetting the Tx ring pointer. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
