Re: Lance driver sick with 2.2.0-prex changes

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 16 Jan 1999 20:26:59 +0000 (GMT)

> PentiumPro-180, 64MB RAM Ethernet is an onboard AMD PCnet/PCI-II 79C970A
> connect with coax to only one machine and managed by `lance.c'. The card
> became unusable after 2h uptime while a PPP connection to my provider was
> running and another Linux PC was connected via eth0. This client runs Linux
> 2.0.33 and gets its root filesystem via NFS.

Does the pcnet32 driver find it.

> The kernel log is filled with
> Jan 16 18:46:12 nomad kernel: eth0: Tx FIFO error! Status a2e2.

That means that the device is having problems because it is being held off
the bus for too long.

> 2.0.33 had no such problems as far as I've seen.

If you boot 2.0.33 and run your current Xserver and configuration is this still
true ?

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