Problem with SMC Etherpower II + kernel newer 2.4.2

From: Juergen Wolf (JuWo@N-Club.de)
Date: Mon Jul 02 2001 - 06:55:09 EST


Hi everybody,

currently I experience some strange problems with every kernels newer
than 2.4.2 and my SMC Etherpower II network card. While running such a
kernel, the network hangs and I get lots of errors like these listed
below:

Jul 2 13:06:59 localhost kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt,
IntrStatus=0x008d0004.
Jul 2 13:07:06 localhost last message repeated 5 times
Jul 2 13:07:20 localhost kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed
out
Jul 2 13:07:20 localhost kernel: eth0: Transmit timeout using MII
device, Tx status 4003.
Jul 2 13:07:22 localhost kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt,
IntrStatus=0x008d0004.

The /proc/pci lists the following system components:

PCI devices found:
  Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
    Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev
3).
      Master Capable. Latency=32.
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd8000000 [0xdbffffff].
  Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
    PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
(rev 0).
      Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=12.
  Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
    ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South]
(rev 34).
  Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
    IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 16).
      Master Capable. Latency=32.
      I/O at 0xc000 [0xc00f].
  Bus 0, device 7, function 2:
    USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 16).
      IRQ 9.
      Master Capable. Latency=32.
      I/O at 0xc400 [0xc41f].
  Bus 0, device 7, function 3:
    USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (#2) (rev 16).
      IRQ 9.
      Master Capable. Latency=32.
      I/O at 0xc800 [0xc81f].
  Bus 0, device 7, function 4:
    Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI]
(rev 48).
  Bus 0, device 7, function 5:
    Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio
Controller (rev 32).
      IRQ 11.
      I/O at 0xcc00 [0xccff].
      I/O at 0xd000 [0xd003].
      I/O at 0xd400 [0xd403].
  Bus 0, device 9, function 0:
    Multimedia audio controller: Xilinx, Inc. RME Digi96/8 (rev 4).
      IRQ 10.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xde000000 [0xdeffffff].
  Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
    Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 2).
      IRQ 5.
      Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=128.
      I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc3f].
  Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
    Ethernet controller: Standard Microsystems Corp [SMC] 83C170QF (rev
9).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=28.
      I/O at 0xe000 [0xe0ff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe0000fff].
  Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
    VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 (rev 161).
      IRQ 10.
      Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdc000000 [0xdcffffff].
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0000000 [0xd7ffffff].

Does anybody else got these errors or knows about a solution for this ??
The 2.2.x kernels and all kernel versions below (including) 2.4.2 work
fine on the same system and I did not find any entries in the changelogs
for the SMC driver code.

Thx
        Juergen
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