I have a Mandrake 6.0 install on a system with a 3com 3c905b (Vortex) card.
It seems to boot up fine, but I can't ping to it from outside (crossover
cable from a Win98 box).
When I check the IFCONFIG, it states:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:4B:B3:79:4D
inet addr:169.254.55.105 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:3 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:9 Base address:0x1480
The other card can autosense 10 or 100 mbit connection, but for some reason
I get no link status light. Both cards and machines talk to eachother when
using Windows (98 & NT) using the same crossover cable - so it's not hardware.
When I checked the dmesg and /var/log/messages I found the following:
From /var/log/messages:
Aug 20 16:52:11 foxbase kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps Combo at
0x1480, 00:10:4b:b3:79:4d, IRQ 9
Aug 20 17:01:05 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 20 17:57:05 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 20 17:58:10 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 20 20:34:20 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 20 20:37:10 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 20 20:42:20 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 20 20:44:45 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 20 20:49:25 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 20 20:49:30 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 20 20:49:35 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 20 20:49:50 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 20 20:54:55 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 20 20:55:00 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 20 20:55:35 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 20 20:55:40 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 20 20:55:45 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 20 20:56:00 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 20 20:56:05 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 20 20:56:10 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 20 21:00:05 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 20 21:00:10 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 20 21:00:15 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 20 21:00:20 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 24 19:11:30 foxbase kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps Combo at
0x1480, 00:10:4b:b3:79:4d, IRQ 9
Aug 24 19:11:29 foxbase network: Bringing up interface eth0 succeeded
Aug 24 19:21:39 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 24 19:28:44 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 24 20:27:10 foxbase kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps Combo at
0x1480, 00:10:4b:b3:79:4d, IRQ 9
Aug 24 20:27:09 foxbase network: Bringing up interface eth0 succeeded
Aug 24 20:37:19 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 24 21:13:14 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
Aug 24 21:45:19 foxbase kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e000.
from dmesg:
eth0: 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps Combo at 0x1480, 00:10:4b:b3:79:4d, IRQ 9
8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/10baseT interface.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000.
Flags; bus-master 1, full 1; dirty 28 current 44.
Transmit list 00000000 vs. 8050b2c0.
0: @8050b200 length 8000006e status 0000006e
1: @8050b210 length 8000006e status 0000006e
2: @8050b220 length 8000006e status 0000006e
3: @8050b230 length 8000006e status 0000006e
4: @8050b240 length 8000006e status 0000006e
5: @8050b250 length 8000006e status 0000006e
6: @8050b260 length 8000006e status 0000006e
7: @8050b270 length 8000006e status 0000006e
8: @8050b280 length 800000dc status 000000dc
9: @8050b290 length 800000ff status 000000ff
10: @8050b2a0 length 800000fa status 800000fa
11: @8050b2b0 length 800000ff status 800000ff
12: @8050b2c0 length 800000e8 status 000000e8
13: @8050b2d0 length 800000e8 status 000000e8
14: @8050b2e0 length 800000e8 status 000000e8
15: @8050b2f0 length 800000e8 status 000000e8
eth0: Resetting the Tx ring pointer.
What does that mean?
Any help would be appreciated.
thx,
Robert Fox
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