After leaving my laptop (Compaq Armada M300) running Mandrake 7.2 on for
a few days, and then performing a large file transfer, my Ethernet card
(a 3C575 PCMCIA) stops working and /var/log/messages starts getting
these every 5 seconds:
Feb 11 20:59:35 icarus kernel: diagnostics: net 0ce0 media 8800 dma
000000a0.
Feb 11 20:59:35 icarus kernel: eth0: Tx Ring full, refusing to send
buffer.
Feb 11 20:59:40 icarus kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
So far, the only way I've found to get past this is a reboot. And the
last time this happened, after rebooting, it only worked for a couple of
minutes. I used it under Windows for a little while, then brought it
home on Friday and Linux worked just fine.
I'm guessing this is some sort of issue with either the PCMCIA drivers
or the driver for this specific card. But since the 3c575 driver isn't
in the stock kernel sources, I don't know where to go from there... :-(
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