Network hang with 2.4.1-pre9 and 3c59x

John Roll
2001-01-23T17:41:30Z

Hi,

I read about some problems with my ethernet card (3c59x) but it was rumored
that they were fixed in 2.4.1-pre8. I have 6 IDE drives raided together and
was stress testing the disk IO. Suddenly there was no network!

[root@image log]# uname -a
Linux image.harvard.edu 2.4.1-pre9 #1 SMP Mon Jan 22 12:59:32 EST 2001 i686 unknown

>From the log:

NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e681.
diagnostics: net 0cd8 media 8880 dma 0000003a.
eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device?
Flags; bus-master 1, full 0; dirty 18114(2) current 18114(2).
Transmit list 00000000 vs. c14ab220.
0: @c14ab200 length 8000002a status 8001002a
1: @c14ab210 length 8000002a status 8001002a
2: @c14ab220 length 800000fe status 000100fe
3: @c14ab230 length 800005ea status 000105ea
4: @c14ab240 length 800000fe status 000100fe
5: @c14ab250 length 800000fe status 000100fe
6: @c14ab260 length 800005ea status 000105ea
7: @c14ab270 length 800000fe status 000100fe
8: @c14ab280 length 800000fe status 000100fe
9: @c14ab290 length 800000fe status 000100fe
10: @c14ab2a0 length 800000fe status 000100fe
11: @c14ab2b0 length 8000002a status 0001002a
12: @c14ab2c0 length 8000002a status 0001002a
13: @c14ab2d0 length 8000002a status 0001002a
14: @c14ab2e0 length 8000002a status 0001002a
15: @c14ab2f0 length 8000002a status 0001002a

... several more message blocks like this until I reboot ....

Here is the boot message showing my ethernet card:

3c59x.c:LK1.1.12 06 Jan 2000 Donald Becker and others. http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html $Revision: 1.102.2.46 $
See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
eth0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xe400, 00:01:02:c4:ae:cb, IRQ 16
product code 'CG' rev 00.12 date 08-29-00
8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786d.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.