Re: Signals

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Tue, 4 Feb 1997 19:02:08 -0500 (EST)


I got a bunch (few dozen over 8 hours) of these the other day on a P100
running 2.0.28 with a realtek PCI ne2k card during a backup/compare over
the network to this system's DAT. The source comments around
this printk make it sound like this isn't a very good thing to see.

eth0: Tx timed out, cable problem? TSR=0x6, ISR=0x0, t=27.
eth0: Tx timed out, cable problem? TSR=0x6, ISR=0x0, t=27.
eth0: Tx timed out, cable problem? TSR=0x6, ISR=0x0, t=26.

How bad are these errors, and should I start looking into putting a
different ethernet card in...or are there bugs in the 2.0.28 ne2k support
that have been fixed?

Bus 0, device 18, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Realtek 8029 (rev 0).
Medium devsel. IRQ 9.
I/O at 0x6100.

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