Hello, For some time now we're observing a very bad [tm] network problem with our 3Com 3c905B Cyclone card. After booting the network works just fine, but after a few days ( ranging from five to 10) really hard network problems occur, rendering the network accessabilty to zero; only manually restarting the network solves this problem (from local, of course). I appended the relevant lines of the logfiles for a more informative description. Altough the date/time stamps are a bit old (a few feks) the problem still exists recurrence every few days now :/ I allready searched the mailing list and I'm aware of scylds [1] website, but unfortunatly none of this information helped us. kind regards, Markus [1] http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html -- Markus Fischer, http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~mfischer/ EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~mfischer/C2272BD0.asc PGP Fingerprint: D3B0 DD4F E12B F911 3CE1 C2B5 D674 B445 C227 2BD0
Oct 2 08:42:25 josefine kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99H 12Jun00 Donald Becker and others http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html Oct 2 08:42:25 josefine kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xb800, 00:10:5a:22:c4:60, IRQ 10 Oct 2 08:42:25 josefine kernel: 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface. Oct 2 08:42:25 josefine kernel: MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786d. Oct 2 08:42:25 josefine kernel: MII transceiver found at address 0, status 786d. Oct 2 08:42:25 josefine kernel: Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. [...] Oct 10 18:24:44 josefine kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82. Oct 10 18:26:31 josefine kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82. Oct 10 18:26:59 josefine kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82. Oct 10 18:30:05 josefine kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82. Oct 10 18:32:45 josefine kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82. Oct 10 18:32:57 josefine kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82. Oct 10 18:33:04 josefine kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82. Oct 10 18:33:51 josefine kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82. Oct 10 18:33:53 josefine kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82. [...] Oct 10 18:55:09 josefine kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82. Oct 10 18:55:51 josefine kernel: eth0: Tx Ring full, refusing to send buffer. Oct 10 18:55:57 josefine kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Oct 10 18:55:57 josefine kernel: Flags; bus-master 1, full 1; dirty 18492715 current 18492731. Oct 10 18:55:57 josefine kernel: Transmit list 00000000 vs. cf98bab0. Oct 10 18:55:57 josefine kernel: 0: @cf98ba00 length 800005ea status 000105ea Oct 10 18:55:57 josefine kernel: 1: @cf98ba10 length 800005ea status 000105ea Oct 10 18:55:57 josefine kernel: 2: @cf98ba20 length 800005ea status 000005ea Oct 10 18:55:57 josefine kernel: 3: @cf98ba30 length 800005ea status 000005ea Oct 10 18:55:57 josefine kernel: 4: @cf98ba40 length 800005ea status 000005ea Oct 10 18:55:57 josefine kernel: 5: @cf98ba50 length 800005ea status 000005ea Oct 10 18:55:57 josefine kernel: 6: @cf98ba60 length 800005ea status 000005ea Oct 10 18:55:57 josefine kernel: 7: @cf98ba70 length 800005ea status 000005ea Oct 10 18:55:57 josefine kernel: 8: @cf98ba80 length 800005ea status 000005ea Oct 10 18:55:57 josefine kernel: 9: @cf98ba90 length 800005ea status 800005ea Oct 10 18:55:57 josefine kernel: 10: @cf98baa0 length 800005ea status 800005ea Oct 10 18:55:57 josefine kernel: 11: @cf98bab0 length 800005ea status 000105ea Oct 10 18:55:57 josefine kernel: 12: @cf98bac0 length 800005ea status 000105ea Oct 10 18:55:57 josefine kernel: 13: @cf98bad0 length 800005ea status 000105ea Oct 10 18:55:57 josefine kernel: 14: @cf98bae0 length 800005ea status 000105ea Oct 10 18:55:57 josefine kernel: 15: @cf98baf0 length 800005ea status 000105ea Oct 10 18:55:57 josefine kernel: eth0: Resetting the Tx ring pointer. Oct 10 18:55:57 josefine kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82. Oct 10 18:55:57 josefine kernel: eth0: Tx Ring full, refusing to send buffer. Oct 10 18:56:07 josefine kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Oct 10 18:56:07 josefine kernel: Flags; bus-master 1, full 1; dirty 18492761 current 18492777. Oct 10 18:56:07 josefine kernel: Transmit list 00000000 vs. cf98ba90. Oct 10 18:56:07 josefine kernel: 0: @cf98ba00 length 800000a6 status 000100a6 Oct 10 18:56:07 josefine kernel: 1: @cf98ba10 length 80000072 status 00010072 Oct 10 18:56:07 josefine kernel: 2: @cf98ba20 length 80000036 status 00010036 Oct 10 18:56:07 josefine kernel: 3: @cf98ba30 length 80000036 status 00010036 Oct 10 18:56:07 josefine kernel: 4: @cf98ba40 length 800005ea status 000105ea Oct 10 18:56:07 josefine kernel: 5: @cf98ba50 length 80000036 status 00000036 Oct 10 18:56:07 josefine kernel: 6: @cf98ba60 length 800000a6 status 000000a6 Oct 10 18:56:07 josefine kernel: 7: @cf98ba70 length 80000072 status 80000072 Oct 10 18:56:07 josefine kernel: 8: @cf98ba80 length 80000036 status 80000036 Oct 10 18:56:07 josefine kernel: 9: @cf98ba90 length 800000a6 status 000100a6 Oct 10 18:56:07 josefine kernel: 10: @cf98baa0 length 80000072 status 00010072 Oct 10 18:56:07 josefine kernel: 11: @cf98bab0 length 80000036 status 00010036 Oct 10 18:56:07 josefine kernel: 12: @cf98bac0 length 80000036 status 00010036 Oct 10 18:56:07 josefine kernel: 13: @cf98bad0 length 80000036 status 00010036 Oct 10 18:56:07 josefine kernel: 14: @cf98bae0 length 800005ea status 000105ea Oct 10 18:56:07 josefine kernel: 15: @cf98baf0 length 80000036 status 00010036 [...]