Re: tlan woes - interface goes down if pushed hard

From: Torben Mathiasen (tmm@image.dk)
Date: Wed May 31 2000 - 05:56:39 EST


On Tue, May 30 2000, Joel Sloan wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > Joel Sloan wrote:
> > -Exactly- what kernel version are you using?
> >
> > TLAN driver was updated very very recently, so it would be a good idea
> > to grab the latest kernel (2.4.0-test1) and the latest AC patch
> > (2.4.0-test1-ac5 presently), and try that.
>
> The latest test this morning was with 2.4.0-test1-ac5, which
> contains tlan driver v1.8 -
>
> I'm not sure this is a tlan specific bug, or if the tlan card
> just shows it more easily - I have seen similar issues
> with tulip cards in recent kernels... however I've been
> seeing this tlan issue since at least as far back as 2.3.4x
>
> I've reloaded the tlan driver with debug=0x15, so hopefully
> there will be more info when I test it again -
>
Could you try compiling the tlan driver with "bbuf" set to 1 and
see what happens?
This will give you larger RX/TX buffers.

-- 
Torben Mathiasen <torben.mathiasen@compaq.com>
Linux ThunderLAN maintainer 
http://tlan.kernel.dk
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