From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 16:16:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 16:15:50 -0500 Received: from ns.snowman.net ([63.80.4.34]:520 "EHLO ns.snowman.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 16:15:45 -0500 Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:43:28 -0500 From: Stephen Frost To: Jeroen Geusebroek Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.2.17 & Eepro(10) Message-ID: <20001130154328.W26953@ns> Mail-Followup-To: Jeroen Geusebroek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="4dbYIUm7Fhfg+fSv" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from Jeroen.Geusebroek@osc.nl on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 09:13:32PM +0100 X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ X-Info: http://www.snowman.net X-Operating-System: Linux/2.2.16 (i686) X-Uptime: 8:28am up 89 days, 12:22, 4 users, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --4dbYIUm7Fhfg+fSv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Jeroen Geusebroek (Jeroen.Geusebroek@osc.nl) wrote: >=20 > I'm having troubles with the eepro driver included in kernel 2.2.17. > It stops sometimes with no apparent reason. The one thing i noticed > is that it seems to have a lot of carrier problems(998!) >=20 > This is part of the result from ifconfig: >=20 > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:AA:00:A6:05:01 =20 > inet addr:24.132.xx.xxx Bcast:24.132.xx.xxx Mask:255.255.254.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:248714 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:64711 errors:1925 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:998 > collisions:832 txqueuelen:100=20 > Interrupt:10 Base address:0x230 I have similar problems, though I don't have any carrier problems: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:C9:66:12:9B =20 inet addr:xx.xx.xx.xx Bcast:xx.xx.xx.xx Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:214835 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:33050 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100=20 Interrupt:9 Base address:0xe0e0=20 Seems to just drop out when there hasn't been any activity for a while for me though. Give it about 10-15 seconds and it comes back. > Needless to say i didn't have this problem with previous kernels > (including 2.2.16). Linux junior 2.2.17-raid #1 Wed Nov 8 07:48:57 EST 2000 i686 unknown I didn't run this machine very long w/ 2.2.16 so I don't really know if previous versions had the same problem. If I have some time, perhaps over the weekend, I'll try and find out. Stephen --4dbYIUm7Fhfg+fSv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6JrvwrzgMPqB3kigRAmxxAJ9sR6BxBh9d7OUkOBC4gCInai1aIQCZASaa wG1KwKM2kX3w3rRK8LRITQA= =fHB2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4dbYIUm7Fhfg+fSv-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/