Re: NETDEV timeout on tulips [was: Re: 2.4.1-test10]

[David Ford <david@linux.com>]

Matti Aarnio wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:48:16AM +0000, David Ford wrote:
> > The three cardbus cards are slightly different in numerous ways.  For
> > them they normally fault with an APM event, an eject/insert cycle via
> > software will reset hem and a link down/up won't fix it.  For the PCI
> > cards most times a link down/up cycle will fix them.  It's a 2.4 v.s. 2.2
> > issue, the 2.2 kernels aren't exhibiting this error.
>
>         I see that with my AT2800TX cardbus card as well.
>         (Using Tulip driver, no less.)
>
> > The PCI cards are hard to get into this state, sometimes they'll run
> > millions of packets for months on end before they'll burp.  Sometimes
> > it'll happen three times a night.  The amount of traffic doesn't seem
> > to matter, nor does the type of traffic.
>
>         Sounds like timing issue.

Hmm, should we class these as two similar but different bugs?  I suspect they
are both timing but there is another stimulus operating differently.

-d

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