2000-12-22 17:33:21

by Stephen Torri

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Subject: Transmission errors for Xircom RealPort2 10/100 Cardbus NIC.

I am having a real interesting time with the Xircom card and
kernel-2.2.16. All transmission packets from the NIC are being flagged for
errors while all received packets are fine. The card is in a Twinhead
P88TE Cardbus PCMCIA slot. Eradicate errors like total packet loss, 1
packet out of 4 returning fine with ping, and others are causing me to be
concerned. The module I am using is tulip_cb.

I got these details from ifconfig.

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:A4:B9:6C:D2
inet addr:10.0.0.4 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:965 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:983 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:983
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100

I checked the file /proc/net/dev
Inter-| Receive | Transmit
face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
lo: 613871 2002 0 0 0 0 0 0 613871 2002 0 0 0 0 0 0
eth0: 597544 1017 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1038 0 0 0 1038 0

That reports no errors.

Just to let you know what modules are loaded:

Module Size Used by
tulip_cb 30856 2
cb_enabler 2472 2 [tulip_cb]
ds 6600 2 [cb_enabler]
i82365 29764 2
pcmcia_core 44192 0 [cb_enabler ds i82365]
nls_cp437 3876 3 (autoclean)
vfat 9276 1 (autoclean)
fat 30400 1 (autoclean) [vfat]
es1371 27264 0
soundcore 2628 4 [es1371]

Stephen
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2000-12-22 17:38:23

by Andrea Arcangeli

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Subject: Re: Transmission errors for Xircom RealPort2 10/100 Cardbus NIC.

On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 05:01:02PM +0000, Stephen Torri wrote:
> concerned. The module I am using is tulip_cb.

upgrade to latest pcmcia package on sourceforge.

Andrea

2000-12-22 18:36:47

by Richard B. Johnson

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Subject: Re: Transmission errors for Xircom RealPort2 10/100 Cardbus NIC.

On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Stephen Torri wrote:

> I am having a real interesting time with the Xircom card and
> kernel-2.2.16. All transmission packets from the NIC are being flagged for
> errors while all received packets are fine. The card is in a Twinhead
> P88TE Cardbus PCMCIA slot. Eradicate errors like total packet loss, 1
> packet out of 4 returning fine with ping, and others are causing me to be
> concerned. The module I am using is tulip_cb.

Update your `ifconfig`. It's just reading the wrong stuff.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson

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