Re: NETDEV timeout on tulips [was: Re: 2.4.1-test10]

[Matti Aarnio]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:48:16AM +0000, David Ford wrote:
> The three cardbus cards are slightly different in numerous ways.  For
> them they normally fault with an APM event, an eject/insert cycle via
> software will reset hem and a link down/up won't fix it.  For the PCI
> cards most times a link down/up cycle will fix them.  It's a 2.4 v.s. 2.2
> issue, the 2.2 kernels aren't exhibiting this error.

	I see that with my AT2800TX cardbus card as well.
	(Using Tulip driver, no less.)

> The PCI cards are hard to get into this state, sometimes they'll run
> millions of packets for months on end before they'll burp.  Sometimes
> it'll happen three times a night.  The amount of traffic doesn't seem
> to matter, nor does the type of traffic.

	Sounds like timing issue.

> -d

/Matti Aarnio