e100_wait_exec_cmd && e100_wait_exec_simple: Wait failed

Hi Andrea, hi list!

Using SuSE's 8.0 default kernel (k_deflt-2.4.18-58):

Intel(R) PRO/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter - Loadable driver, ver 1.8.37
...
eth0 e100_wait_exec_cmd: Wait failed.
...
last message repeated 23 times
last message repeated 34 times
...

And using SuSE's k_deflt-2.4.18-186:
Intel(R) PRO/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter - Loadable driver, ver 2.0.30-k1
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eth0 e100_wait_exec_simple: Wait failed
...
last message repeated 8 times
last message repeated 25 times
...

I also had machine hangs with both drivers during heavy network load. Could these hangup's be related to the driver's "error"? Or is it just a
"warning"?

from lspci -vvv:

...
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 3013
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium

Latency: 66 (2000ns min, 14000ns max), cache line size 08
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: Memory at f5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Region 1: I/O ports at 3400 [size=64]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
...

Do you need any more information?
(P III 800 Mhz, 256 MB RAM)

Thanks for any help, Richard

P.S.: Please reply to [email protected], I'm not on lkml.

Richard Ems
... e-mail: [email protected]
... Computer Science, University of Hamburg

Unix IS user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.

Hello Richard,

I'm probably not the best person to handle these reports. You should report to [email protected] (CC'ed), they are the authors of the e100 driver.

Until a fix is available I would suggest to try to use the original linux eepro100 driver and see if the machine hangs goes away that way.

thanks,

Andrea