3c59x Problems

[Parag Warudkar]

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Hello,
            I have a 3c905C and get following errors under medium 
network loads.
The hub, network, and all other stuff is quite good. Also on same 
machine Win2K gave
no problems. When the error occurs, I get transfer speeds of 0.43 Kbps. 
I never experienced the
same with Win2K.

DMESG OUTPUT

3c59x.c:LK1.1.15 6 June 2001  Donald Becker and others. 
http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
01:0c.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0xec80,  00:b0:d0:69:77:71, IRQ 5
  product code 0000 rev 00.14 date 07-16-104
  8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
  MII transceiver found at address 24, status 782d.
  Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
01:0c.0: scatter/gather disabled. h/w checksums enabled
eth0: using NWAY device table, not 8

eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82.
Probably a duplex mismatch.  See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
  Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 343441(1) current 343441(1)
  Transmit list 00000000 vs. dedfe240.
  0: @dedfe200  length 800002f2 status 800102f2
  1: @dedfe240  length 80000042 status 00010042
  2: @dedfe280  length 80000042 status 00010042
  3: @dedfe2c0  length 80000042 status 00010042
  4: @dedfe300  length 80000042 status 00010042
  5: @dedfe340  length 80000042 status 00010042
  6: @dedfe380  length 80000042 status 00010042
  7: @dedfe3c0  length 8000004a status 0001004a
  8: @dedfe400  length 80000042 status 00010042
  9: @dedfe440  length 800002d0 status 000102d0
  10: @dedfe480  length 80000042 status 00010042
  11: @dedfe4c0  length 80000042 status 00010042
  12: @dedfe500  length 80000042 status 00010042
  13: @dedfe540  length 80000042 status 00010042
  14: @dedfe580  length 8000004a status 0001004a
  15: @dedfe5c0  length 80000042 status 00010042

*******************Keeps repeating..

After some time the network becomes unusable. The problem is always 
reproducible.
I run Kernel-2.4.6-2 on RH7.1 (From Rawhide). Is there any update for 
the 3c59x driver for 2.4.x kernels?

Parag

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