Re: Via-rhine problem with older hardware

From: William Gallafent (william.gallafent@virgin.net)
Date: Mon Jul 07 2003 - 06:57:17 EST

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On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Hakan Lennestal wrote:

>
> Hi !
>
> I'm having troubles with newer via-rhine drivers (1.1.17) and older
> via-rhine hardware (VT86C100A [Rhine] (rev 06)).
> With moderate CPU load (10-15 %) and some network load
> (a couple of houndred kbps) I'm repeatedly getting:
> Jul 1 19:56:52 ip2 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> Jul 1 19:56:52 ip2 kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out, status 0000, PHY
> status 782d, resetting...
>
> Everything works just smoothly with via-rhine 1.1.15.
>
> This machine does not have ACPI (or APM) enabled.

I had similar problems a while ago on an AMD 760MP system with APIC
enabled. Have you tried booting 'noapic'? The problem went away with a BIOS
update, too, so make sure you have the latest BIOS.

-- 
Bill Gallafent.
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