Re: eepro100.c 1.20.2.10 $ 2000/05/31 , Intermitant offline without log .

[Andrey Savochkin]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 11:22:36PM -0700, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> 	Hello Andrey ,  I have been getting intermitant offlines of the
> 	eth0 (eepro100) .  This happens with or without load on the 
> 	system though I do notice it more under load than not .  The card
> 	(or driver) will quit receiving & transmitting for periods of
> 	~ 5 minutes to 15 minutes ,  But if the stall goes longer than
> 	that it will not on its own return .  I can unplug the rj45 cable
> 	from the card & plug it back in & it will (well has so far)
> 	returned from lala land .  Pertinent info is below .sig .

If replugging the cable helps, it has good chances to be not a driver bug.
It may happen to be hardware flow control misbehavior or something like it.
What is your mode (10/100 full/half duplex)?

There are a lot of things which may be done to get more information what
happens.  Change cable.  Try another port on hub.  Try host-to-host
ethernet connection.  Set speedo_debug to 3 in the driver.  Check the card
status by mii-diag from scyld.com.

> 	Also the card is plugged into a Netgear 10/100 ds-108 8 port hub .
> 	But there are no logs of any failure of any subsystem . So I am
> 	at a loss as to even figure out where to go from here .

Best regards
					Andrey V.
					Savochkin