PLIP and recent kernels

Robert.Vincent@cfcmi.org
Fri, 12 Jun 1998 15:49:07 -0400

Finally got around to installing PLIP so I can transfer data to/from my laptop
which is not blessed with a real network card.

Unfortunately, every time I transfer a (large) file, both consoles get overwritten
with a multitude of messages such as the following:

plip0: receive timeout(2,87)
plip0: transmit timeout(1,87)
plip0: transmit timeout(1,87)
plip0: transmit timeout(1,87)
plip0: transmit timeout(1,87)
plip0: receive timeout(2,87)
plip0: transmit timeout(1,8f)
...
plip0: receive timeout(2,87)
plip0: transmit timeout(1,8f)
plip0: receive timeout(2,87)
plip0: receive timeout(5,a7)
plip0: receive timeout(2,87)
plip0: receive timeout(2,87)
plip0: receive timeout(5,87)

This happens on both 2.0.33 (on the laptop) and 2.1.105 (on the desktop).

These messages appear once every minute or two. Is something broke, or
should I edit the kernel sources and comment out the printk calls in
/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/plip.c ?

Is there something I can tweak to reduce/eliminate the frequency of the
timeouts?

(HELP!)

Thanks!

-- 
Robert A. Vincent II
<robert.vincent@cfcmi.org>


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