From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 02:55:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 02:55:33 -0400 Received: from cx97923-a.phnx3.az.home.com ([24.9.112.194]:18105 "EHLO grok.yi.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 02:55:25 -0400 Message-ID: <3B874BED.E641DB96@candelatech.com> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 23:55:41 -0700 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-pre4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel Subject: VIA Rhine problem in 2.4.9-pre4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org It seem that my built-in ethernet NIC has either gone bad, or the 2.4.9-pre4 drivers are bad. It only seems to happen with this one machine, so it could be hardware. The symptom is that the NIC looses the ability to transmit. It does receive pkts OK (ie it received an ARP request from my other machine, and answered according to tcpdump, but the pkt was never put on the wire it seems. Here is a snippet of the dmesg: eth0: VIA VT2043 Rhine at 0xe000, 00:50:08:00:35:c6, IRQ 11. eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x782d advertising 05e1 Link 0021 This last time it happened, I noticed this printed to the console: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, entry 0x9 length 0 status 00000600 eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame c7572090 vs c7572090. I looked at /proc/net/dev and didn't see too many errors (there were a few, though, including carrier errors). I tried replacing the cable but that did not fix the problem. The link does come back up after reboot... Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear