Re: dark vortex
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
20 Dec 1996 19:33:20 GMT
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961218152830.22042B-100000@ns.image.dk>
By author: Jakob Andreas =?UNKNOWN-8BIT?Q?B=E6rentzen?= <jab@image.dk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
>
> Hi,
>
> We have a Linux box with two ``3Com 3c595 Vortex 100baseTX'' It acts as a
> bridge between two networks. Every now and then - a couple of days
> between instances - the network interface(s) fall fast asleep after the
> following errormessage:
>
> Dec 10 17:26:05 bridge kernel: eth0: Infinite loop in interrupt, status
> e011. Disabling functions (78ee).
> Dec 11 01:14:38 bridge kernel: eth1: Infinite loop in interrupt, status
> e011. Disabling functions (78ee).
>
> Does anybody know what the errormessages mean? I have looked into
>
> 3c59x.c
>
> And searched the net, but I am not quite sure how to decode the status
> message.
>
> Any hints about the significance of `78ee' and `e011' would be warmly
> appreciated.
>
> Andreas
> ---
> J. Andreas Baerentzen - jab@image.dk
> Image Scandinavia ApS
> http://www.image.dk
>
>
>
What is your kernel version, and is this an SMP machine? We are
seeing the same phenomenon on one --and only one-- SMP machine; the
only thing different was that that one machine was running 2.0.25
whereas the rest was running 2.0.14. We were using Don Becker's
0.28-all driver with 3c90x support in it (we have a couple of those,
too.) We replaced the 3c595 with an SMC 9332BDT (tulip) card using
Don Becker's 0.42 driver and haven't seen that problem again.
-hpa
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