2003-07-02 14:48:30

by Hakan Lennestal

Subject: Via-rhine problem with older hardware

Hi !

I'm having troubles with newer via-rhine drivers (1.1.17) and older
via-rhine hardware (VT86C100A [Rhine] (rev 06)).
With moderate CPU load (10-15 %) and some network load
(a couple of houndred kbps) I'm repeatedly getting:
Jul 1 19:56:52 ip2 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
Jul 1 19:56:52 ip2 kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out, status 0000, PHY
status 782d, resetting...

Everything works just smoothly with via-rhine 1.1.15.

This machine does not have ACPI (or APM) enabled.

Regards.

/H?kan

2003-07-07 11:40:39

by William Gallafent

Subject: Re: Via-rhine problem with older hardware

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Hakan Lennestal wrote:

>
> Hi !
>
> I'm having troubles with newer via-rhine drivers (1.1.17) and older
> via-rhine hardware (VT86C100A [Rhine] (rev 06)).
> With moderate CPU load (10-15 %) and some network load
> (a couple of houndred kbps) I'm repeatedly getting:
> Jul 1 19:56:52 ip2 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> Jul 1 19:56:52 ip2 kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out, status 0000, PHY
> status 782d, resetting...
>
> Everything works just smoothly with via-rhine 1.1.15.
>
> This machine does not have ACPI (or APM) enabled.

I had similar problems a while ago on an AMD 760MP system with APIC
enabled. Have you tried booting 'noapic'? The problem went away with a BIOS
update, too, so make sure you have the latest BIOS.

--
Bill Gallafent.