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DISCUSSION Joseph Cheek 6 participants 10 messages Dec 13, 2000 – Dec 15, 2000

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#0 lore raw

hi all,

after about an hour of uptime [and heavy HD usage] my ethernet just died. couldn't ping a thing. syslog showed:

Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit
timed out
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status
00 status e680.
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   Flags; bus-master 1, full 1;
dirty 3306(10) current 3322(10).
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   Transmit list 00000000 vs.
c7c732a0.
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   0: @c7c73200  length 8000002a
status 0001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   1: @c7c73210  length 8000002a
status 0001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   2: @c7c73220  length 8000002a
status 0001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   3: @c7c73230  length 8000002a
status 0001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   4: @c7c73240  length 8000002a
status 0001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   5: @c7c73250  length 8000002a
status 0001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   6: @c7c73260  length 8000002a
status 0001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   7: @c7c73270  length 8000002a
status 0001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   8: @c7c73280  length 8000002a
status 8001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   9: @c7c73290  length 8000002a
status 8001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   10: @c7c732a0  length 8000004b
status 0001004b
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   11: @c7c732b0  length 8000004b
status 0001004b
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   12: @c7c732c0  length 8000002a
status 0001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   13: @c7c732d0  length 8000002a
status 0001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   14: @c7c732e0  length 8000002a
status 0001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   15: @c7c732f0  length 8000002a

status 0001002a

after reboot it works fine again [i'll give it an hour...] test12-pre8 and before worked fine. any ideas?

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joe

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#1 lore raw

I just crossed the 1 day mark. What ethernet card do you have?

Quoted 5 lines · Joseph Cheek

hi all,

after about an hour of uptime [and heavy HD usage] my ethernet just died. couldn't ping a thing. syslog showed:

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#2 lore raw
In reply to Joseph Cheek

00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30)

i've been doing a ton of compiling which has thrashed the [IDE] HD, perhaps it is related. other than that, just normal web surfing...

Quoted 11 lines · Mohammad A. Haque

I just crossed the 1 day mark. What ethernet card do you have?

Quoted 5 lines · Joseph Cheek

hi all,

after about an hour of uptime [and heavy HD usage] my ethernet just died. couldn't ping a thing. syslog showed:

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joe

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#3 lore raw
In reply to Joseph Cheek

At first I thought my lockups were HD i/o related also but then the last lockup I had happened a while after I trashed my disk but while grabbing email (ppp link).

Quoted 6 lines · Joseph Cheek

00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30)

i've been doing a ton of compiling which has thrashed the [IDE] HD, perhaps it is related. other than that, just normal web surfing...

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#4 lore raw

Hi

i may have also had some problems with this
when i was connected to the net though ppp (most of the night) so far in about 6 hours it has stoped transmitting 2 times but still recives it is fine after i disconnect and reconnect i will try and get it to stop working with heavry disk io
BTW this is all under 2.2.18 and never had any problem with the isp over the past month or so.

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At first I thought my lockups were HD i/o related also but then the last lockup I had happened a while after I trashed my disk but while grabbing email (ppp link).

Quoted 6 lines · Joseph Cheek

00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30)

i've been doing a ton of compiling which has thrashed the [IDE] HD, perhaps it is related. other than that, just normal web surfing...

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#5 lore raw
In reply to Joseph Cheek

I wasted time trying to track something similar down, replaced the card instead :> My first clue was when smacking the box, it started working again... (j/k)

You didna' mention the card type ...

Quoted 9 lines · Joseph Cheek

hi all,

after about an hour of uptime [and heavy HD usage] my ethernet just died. couldn't ping a thing. syslog showed:

Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit
timed out
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status

00 status e680.

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Quoted 2 lines · Joseph Cheek

00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30)

Hmm, maybe I thru it out too fast.. 3Com905B -TXNM XL PCI SN=6xb1b85caf

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#7 lore raw
In reply to Joseph Cheek

well, it seems to be working fine now, so i guess it was a fluke.

Quoted 5 lines · Michael Peddemors
Quoted 2 lines · Joseph Cheek

00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30)

Hmm, maybe I thru it out too fast.. 3Com905B -TXNM XL PCI SN=6xb1b85caf

thanks!

joe

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Quoted 39 lines · Joseph Cheek
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit
timed out
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status
00 status e680.
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   Flags; bus-master 1, full 1;
dirty 3306(10) current 3322(10).
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   Transmit list 00000000 vs.
c7c732a0.
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   0: @c7c73200  length 8000002a
status 0001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   1: @c7c73210  length 8000002a
status 0001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   2: @c7c73220  length 8000002a
status 0001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   3: @c7c73230  length 8000002a
status 0001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   4: @c7c73240  length 8000002a
status 0001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   5: @c7c73250  length 8000002a
status 0001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   6: @c7c73260  length 8000002a
status 0001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   7: @c7c73270  length 8000002a
status 0001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   8: @c7c73280  length 8000002a
status 8001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   9: @c7c73290  length 8000002a
status 8001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   10: @c7c732a0  length 8000004b
status 0001004b
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   11: @c7c732b0  length 8000004b
status 0001004b
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   12: @c7c732c0  length 8000002a
status 0001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   13: @c7c732d0  length 8000002a
status 0001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   14: @c7c732e0  length 8000002a
status 0001002a
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel:   15: @c7c732f0  length 8000002a
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status 0001002a

I have this too since testX-Kernels are released.

I use a "3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 24)" (actually two of them ;-)).

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after reboot it works fine again [i'll give it an hour...] test12-pre8 and before worked fine. any ideas?

This seems to be code to debug these timeouts.

It didn't cause any harm AFICS, but I CC'ed the Author of this code anyway.

Regards

Ingo Oeser

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Quoted 10 lines · Ingo Oeser
Quoted 2 lines · Joseph Cheek
Dec 13 14:51:46 sanfrancisco kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit

timed out

...
I have this too since testX-Kernels are released.

I use a "3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 24)" (actually two of them ;-)).

Quoted 7 lines
Quoted 2 lines

after reboot it works fine again [i'll give it an hour...] test12-pre8 and before worked fine. any ideas?

This seems to be code to debug these timeouts.

It didn't cause any harm AFICS, but I CC'ed the Author of this code anyway.

Ingo,

Donald wrote just about all the Linux netdrivers, but he now concentrates upon the drivers which he maintains at
http://www.scyld.com. Other people try to help out with the drivers which come from kernel.org.

This particular problem does still occur occasionally.

It's way too infrequent to pin down. It can certainly be caused by a very high collision rate on a hubbed LAN. If that were the only cause I would take all the diagnostics out, because that's simply ethernet.

Other possible causes are lost interrupts in the kernel or hardware, cabling problems, power supply problems or, indeed, a driver bug.

If you are able to reproduce this then I'd be very interested in working with you on it. First step is to read the final section of Documentation/networking/vortex.txt, then send me a long email.

Thanks.
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