Re: need help to fix 3c905 problem, please!

Richard Yoo (ryoo@cymitar.net)
Thu, 24 Apr 1997 14:06:23 -0500

On 02:31 PM 4/24/97 -0400, Nathan Bryant shaped the electrons to say...
>The machine is directly connected to our lightly loaded 100mbps backbone.
>I can't imagine that all these timeouts are caused by collisions; remember
>that collisions are a normal occurrence on an Ethernet unless you are
>dealing with a full-duplex link. For a transmit timeout to be caused by
>collisions, 16 collisions and retrys have to occur. Keep in mind that
>every single transmit times out with kernel 2.0.30; but things work fine
>with 2.0.29. Whatever the problem is, it's not entirely hardware related.

No you misunderstood me... I agree that collisions are normal, what I'm
saying is that the collisions seem to be causing problems with the
driver... so the driver has to be fixed, not that there's a failure in the
hardware.

But, just for kicks, put your machine on it's own ethernet segment on a
switch... I bet you a penny that it wouldn't have any more problems with
the driver (total Rube Goldberg solution)... I had a hard time believing it
myself...

-Richard
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