On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Andrey Savochkin wrote:
> 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.
OK , when plugged back in it then re-negotiates the rates and
duplex .
> What is your mode (10/100 full/half duplex)?
Will check on this soonest . It should be 100 half duplex .
I have an older diag. tool But I'll go grab the one from scyld's
site . It looks like I'd better the date of the files I have
are Jun 1999 .
> 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.
Changed the cable already & the port . Haven't tried the HtoH yet
though . For my info , is there an equivalent to speedo_debug for
the tulip cards ? That you are aware of ? I went scanning thru
the sources for both & didn't find an item I could recognise such
as the above . I have to be blind .
The other aside is that under 2.2.13 this did not happen . Or at
least if it did it happened so fast as to be unnoticable .
Tia , JimL
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