Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-23,: Re: 3com 905 card failure again (network crash)

# Re: 3com 905 card failure again (network crash)

Dan Egli (dan@frankenstien-cpu.com)
Tue, 8 Jun 1999 14:29:55 -0600 (MDT)

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Bad nic? Running 2.2.9 here with a 905B, 0 problems.
Before that, was running on a 905 (Swapped it out w/ the 905b from windows
box since Win98 doesn't like 905Bs) and 0 problems.

On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Michael Merhej wrote:

> Does anybody know what this might mean? This started happening with
> kernel 2.2.9 (kernel 2.2.7 never had this problem). This has happened at
> least 3 times now where the machine is useable, but the nic and
> network connection blows up after some random hours of usage. The machine
> configuration is simple, with only two expansion cards in place - video
> and nic.
>
> Jun 7 20:09:10 web3 kernel: Unable to handle
> kernel paging request at
> virtual address ffffff0b
> Jun 7 20:09:10 web3 kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
> Jun 7 20:09:10 web3 kernel: *pde = 00257067
> Jun 7 20:09:10 web3 kernel: *pte = 00000000
> Jun 7 20:09:10 web3 kernel: Oops: 0000
> Jun 7 20:09:10 web3 kernel: CPU: 0
> Jun 7 20:09:10 web3 kernel: EIP: 0010:[<ffffff0b>]
> Jun 7 20:09:10 web3 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010046
> Jun 7 20:09:10 web3 kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: c0226000 ecx: c8afa000
> edx: c0226000
> Jun 7 20:09:10 web3 kernel: esi: 0009e200 edi: c0106000 ebp: 00001000
> esp: c0227fe0
> Jun 7 20:09:10 web3 kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Jun 7 20:09:10 web3 kernel: Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0,
> stackpage=c0227000)
> Jun 7 20:09:10 web3 kernel: Stack: 00000246 00000000 c0228c8d 00000000
> c0106000 00000000 c020ad3c c01001b1
> Jun 7 20:09:10 web3 kernel: Call Trace: [get_options+0/116] [L6+0/2]
> Jun 7 20:09:10 web3 kernel: Code: <1>Unable to handle kernel paging
> request at virtual address ffffff0b
> Jun 7 20:09:10 web3 kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
> Jun 7 20:09:10 web3 kernel: *pde = 00257067
> Jun 7 20:09:10 web3 kernel: *pte = 00000000
> Jun 7 20:09:21 web3 kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status
> e601.
> Jun 7 20:09:21 web3 kernel: eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered --
> IRQ blocked by another device?
> Jun 7 20:09:31 web3 kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status
> e000.
> Jun 7 20:09:46 web3 kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status
> e000.
> Jun 7 20:09:51 web3 kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status
> e000.
>
>
> Below is the 3com boot information:
> Jun 7 16:19:02 web3 kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at
> 0xef00, 00:10:4b:33:51:17, IRQ 9
> Jun 7 16:19:02 web3 kernel: 8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split,
> autoselect/MII interface.
> Jun 7 16:19:02 web3 kernel: MII transceiver found at address 24, status
> 786f.
> Jun 7 16:19:02 web3 kernel: Enabling bus-master transmits and
> whole-frame receives.
>
> Thanks for your time
>
>
>
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