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Subject: Re: via-rhine timeouts
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On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Justin A wrote:

> I don't think thats the full problem, I just noticed I had been getting
> errors too with the via driver, but it's been working fine otherwise:
> 
[snip]
> Jan 23 09:45:52 bouncybouncy kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 8100.
> Jan 23 09:49:33 bouncybouncy kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 8100.
> Jan 23 09:51:50 bouncybouncy kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 8100.
> Jan 23 17:55:15 bouncybouncy kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 8100.

0100 is that it sees too many collisions. The netdev watchdog I can
trigger seems to be caused by a lot of collisions.


> Is it possible that the problem is with the hub and via-rhine resetting
> the card repetedly just makes it worse?

The hub can be the problem and I suppose resetting could make something
worse (if it is done wrong, for example).

/Urban

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