Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-42,: Re: Network in 2.0.35 stops working(DEC DC21142) again

# Re: Network in 2.0.35 stops working(DEC DC21142) again

Donald Becker (becker@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Sun, 18 Oct 1998 12:58:37 -0400 (EDT)

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On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Dominik Weis wrote:

> Subject: Network in 2.0.35 stops working(DEC DC21142) again
>
> The network on a server with kernel 2.0.35 stoped working again. That is
> the third time that this happend in the last month. The first two craches
> happend with de4x5.c network driver and I did not get any error log. I
> changed the network driver to tulip.c(tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98) and this
> time I got an error message after 8 days uptime. The sytem is a Dual PII
> with 400 Mhz running 2.0.35. The load was not very high when it happend
> only three students were using it at the time.
>
> I got this message over and over till I restarted the network:
>
> Oct 17 14:51:02 math kernel: eth0: 21140 transmit timed out, status
> f00980c7, SIA 000000c4 ffff0001 fffbff7f 8ff0c008, resetting...

The status word 0xF00980C7 indicates that the chip is trying to raise an
interrupt, and the interrupt handler isn't being run. This is almost
certainly a hardware or interrupt dispatch problem, unless some other
error preceeded this one.

Otherwise the status is normal for the chip in this state -- it finished
transmitting packets, and it has completely filled the receive queue and is
presently dropping packets, waiting for the interrupt handler to be run.

Donald Becker becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences.
Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. 20771
301-286-0882 http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/people/becker/whoiam.html

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