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
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Markus Fischer, http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~mfischer/
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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.
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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
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