2.1.22pre2 and 3c59x

Matthew Harrell (mharrell@std.saic.com)
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 10:07:09 -0400

What do these messages mean

Sep 15 09:59:44 tbilisi kernel: eth0: interrupt, status e011, latency 9 ticks.
Sep 15 09:59:44 tbilisi kernel: Receiving packet size 70 status 0046.
Sep 15 09:59:44 tbilisi kernel: eth0: exiting interrupt, status e000.
Sep 15 09:59:44 tbilisi kernel: eth0: interrupt, status e011, latency 8 ticks.
Sep 15 09:59:44 tbilisi kernel: Receiving packet size 1514 status 05ea.
Sep 15 09:59:44 tbilisi kernel: eth0: exiting interrupt, status e000.
Sep 15 09:59:44 tbilisi kernel: eth0: interrupt, status e011, latency 12 ticks.
Sep 15 09:59:44 tbilisi kernel: Receiving packet size 1514 status 05ea.
Sep 15 09:59:44 tbilisi kernel: eth0: exiting interrupt, status e000.
Sep 15 09:59:44 tbilisi kernel: eth0: interrupt, status e011, latency 11 ticks.

I've got a 14MB log file starting from the last 10 hours full of these things.
The network card seems to work fine. Here are the initialization messages:

Sep 15 07:57:00 tbilisi kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99E 5/12/98 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
Sep 15 07:57:00 tbilisi kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c595 Vortex 100baseTX at 0xece0, 00:60:97:53:e7:1f, IRQ 18
Sep 15 07:57:00 tbilisi kernel: Internal config register is 141001b, transceivers 0xe10a.
Sep 15 07:57:00 tbilisi kernel: 64K word-wide RAM 3:1 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/NWay Autonegotiation interface
Sep 15 07:57:00 tbilisi kernel: eth0: Overriding PCI latency timer (CFLT) setting of 64, new value is 248.
Sep 15 07:57:01 tbilisi kernel: eth0: Initial media type 100baseTX.
Sep 15 07:57:01 tbilisi kernel: eth0: vortex_open() InternalConfig 0141001b.
Sep 15 07:57:01 tbilisi kernel: eth0: vortex_open() irq 18 media status 8802.
Sep 15 07:57:01 tbilisi kernel: eth0: interrupt, status e011, latency 10 ticks.
Sep 15 07:57:01 tbilisi kernel: Receiving packet size 114 status 0072.
Sep 15 07:57:01 tbilisi kernel: eth0: exiting interrupt, status e000.
Sep 15 07:57:02 tbilisi kernel: eth0: Media selection timer tick happened, 100baseTX.
Sep 15 07:57:02 tbilisi kernel: eth0: Media 100baseTX has link beat, 8882.
Sep 15 07:57:02 tbilisi kernel: eth0: Media selection timer finished, 100baseTX.

I this anything I should worry about or should I just go into the driver and
comment out the lines?

-- 
  Matthew Harrell                          The Earth is like a tiny grain of
  Simulation Technology Division, SAIC      sand, only much, much heavier.
  mharrell@std.saic.com


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