Antony Stace wrote:
>
> I sometimes get one of my ethernet cards shutting down. The following are
> the errors that get reported into /var/log/messages. Does anyone know what
> is going on and how I might stop this.
>
> Dec 24 21:47:29 grover kernel: eth0: mismatched read page pointers 0 vs 67.
> Dec 24 21:47:29 grover kernel: eth0: mismatched read page pointers 0 vs ff.
> Dec 24 21:47:29 grover last message repeated 16 times
[...]
> Dec 24 21:47:39 grover kernel: Hw. address read/write mismap 0
> Dec 24 21:47:39 grover kernel: Hw. address read/write mismap 1
> Dec 24 21:47:39 grover kernel: Hw. address read/write mismap 2
[...]
You have an 8390 based card - I'll guess a PnP Ne2000 clone. These
messages indicate a card that has gone completely off-line from
a hardware point of view (i/o reads all return 0xff). Make sure you
aren't inadvertently doing something with isapnptools to cause this.
Paul.
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