Re: 3C589 gives eth0: Transmit timed out (in >2.3.44)

[David Hinds]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 05:18:42PM -0500, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
> 
> My 3C589 Ethernet card (PCMCIA) doesn't work on my notebook since
> 2.3.42. In 2.3.43 it didn't compile and in 2.3.44 and above (up to 
> 2.3.46pre2) I get the following messages (lots of them):
> 
> Feb 15 16:21:37 antenas kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

It appears to be a bug in the softnet driver updates.  A fix follows.

-- Dave

--- 3c589_cs.c~ Mon Feb 14 20:00:18 2000
+++ 3c589_cs.c  Tue Feb 15 14:52:39 2000
 	    /* There's room in the FIFO for a full-sized packet. */
 	    outw(AckIntr | TxAvailable, ioaddr + EL3_CMD);
 	    netif_wake_queue (dev);
-	} else {
-	    netif_stop_queue (dev);
 	}
 
 	if (status & TxComplete)