Re: Lockups with Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100

abob@dpd130.rh.psu.edu
Fri, 16 Apr 1999 20:55:37 -0400 (EDT)


> Situation:
> The machine is crusing along with a load average of 0.01 and all of a
> sudden one of the ethernet boards will lock up.

I get this too sometimes (I can see the eepro100 card is sending, but not
receiving on another machine).

[cut kernel messages about eth0: Transmit timed out...]
> The only way to reset the card is to reboot the machine.

ifconfig eth0 down ; ifconfig eth0 up .... ; route add ... makes the card
functional for me when it does this.

> Linux 2.2.5 (root@rhdsdev) (gcc 2.7.2.3) #2 [rhdsdev.]
> Linux 2.2.5 (root@ds6) (gcc 2.7.2.3) #5 SMP Tue Mar 30 08:06:24 CST 1999

both compiled with gcc 2.7.2.3, good :)

> Both of these machines have had at least one lockup. I have 8 machines
> with near identical setups. The lookups occur at about a rate of
> 1 per week.

What you might want to try is compile the kernel without Multicasting, it
seems to have helped with my computer. (this seems to be a common problem with
the eepro100's)

-- 
Daniel Drown <abob@dpd130.rh.psu.edu>

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