AT1700 problems

Brian M Grunkemeyer (bg2k+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Sun, 18 Feb 1996 15:36:18 -0500 (EST)

This one's been bothering me for a while. I was getting eth0 error messages
under 1.1.8x - 1.3.64. (I haven't had them yet under 1.3.66, but I've only
had the computer up for about 24 hours so far.) When using the network for
anything, occasionally my computer just locks up networking for 5-10 minutes.
Rebooting usually makes the problem go away.

Feb 17 13:02:46 grunks linux: eth0: The AT1700 claimed a very large packet, \
size 65312.
Feb 17 13:02:46 grunks linux: eth0: The AT1700 claimed a very large packet, \
size 21063.

The size is a random number under 64K. I have no idea why it's so flaky.

Occasionally I also see eth0 timeout messages.

Feb 6 19:26:49 grunks kernel: eth0: transmit timed out with status 8980, \
IRQ conflict?
Feb 6 19:26:49 grunks kernel: eth0: timeout registers: 8980 8182 0106 e85a\
0d20 0000 8000 0001.

As far as I can tell, I have no IRQ conflict. The card seems to work
under DOS and OS/2.