Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:16:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:16:37 -0500 Received: from nugate.perceptive.se ([62.168.142.2]:10574 "EHLO piff.i.perceptive.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:16:29 -0500 content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Network card timeouts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 19:16:23 +0100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4712.0 Message-ID: <71C83C8929F73A40BBD0C137232DD1972ED4@piff.i.perceptive.se> Thread-Topic: Network card timeouts Thread-Index: AcFyuKAX+DS6NjuHTxyMmnFryok6vg== From: "Anders Linden" To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Symptom: Network cards that stops working if they are sent enough data. The cards I have got problem with this far: Intel Etherexpress Pro 100+ (some kernels ago). Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10 Occasion 1: The kernel version on the computers were 2.4.3. Every person in a single classroom had problem with Intel cards. They could not even fetch webpages before their consoles were spammed with a message like: network card timeout. All computers were Compaq. I dont know which hardware they had in addition to that. I have also had problems with Intel cards even after this occasion on other computers. Occasion 2: The later card, Davicom, is probably not a well-known card, but nevertheless, it works like shit in Linux. I am using Redhat 7.1 and the kernel 2.4.2-2. If I send more than 10M to such a card in an interval of a second, it just quits working for 5 seconds. The card has no problems at all in other, third party operating systems, like Windows. Is it the newest kernels that has theese problems? The first occasion was exactly after a kernel 2.4.3 has been released, and people I talked to said that 2.4.2 and network cards were better friends. Thanks for your attension /Anders Lind?n - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/