Re: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port NIC problems

Re: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port NIC problems

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 9 May 2007 12:01:42 +0200 Mario Doering <mario@dedenet.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> we have a D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port network card in our main router.
> 
> It works pretty well most of the time, even though an error
> message pops up in dmesg every now and then (sometimes once a day
> sometimes once every few hours).
> 
> 
> But every few weeks those error messages increase rapidly, spamming
> dmesg. When this happens the system does not react anymore and pushing
> the reset button is the only option left.
> 
> I googled around and found out that other users have same problem,
> but no solution to this.
> 
> 
> Part of the message log is located here:
> http://test.dedenet.de/messages.gz
> or
> http://test.dedenet.de/messages.txt
> 
> 
> uname -a
> Linux router1 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 #1 Sat Feb 17 17:04:03 CET 2007 i686 AMD
> Athlon(tm) XP AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> driver:
> [   17.364707] sundance.c:v1.2 11-Sep-2006  Written by Donald Becker
> [   17.364711]   http://www.scyld.com/network/sundance.html
> [   17.364844] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:04.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 17 [   17.365396] eth1: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port Server
> Adapter at 0001bc00, 00:0d:88:cc:a5:f0, IRQ 17. [   17.366350] eth1:
> MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7829 advertising 01e1.
> [   17.676491] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:05.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 18 [   17.676912] eth2: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port Server
> Adapter at 0001b800, 00:0d:88:cc:a5:f1, IRQ 18. [   17.677864] eth2:
> MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7809 advertising 01e1.
> [   17.987730] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:06.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 16 [   17.988107] eth3: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port Server
> Adapter at 0001b400, 00:0d:88:cc:a5:f2, IRQ 16. [   17.989059] eth3:
> MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7829 advertising 01e1.
> [   18.298910] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:07.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 19 [   18.299320] eth4: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port Server
> Adapter at 0001b000, 00:0d:88:cc:a5:f3, IRQ 19. [   18.300272] eth4:
> MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7809 advertising 01e1.
> 
> 
> 
> No such error message appears for about 7-10 days after a reboot. Maybe
> there is some kind of buffer running full?
> 
> Do you need any additional info?
> 
> 
> Please CC me :-)

(cc netdev)

Re: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port NIC problems

[Mario Doering]

Hello,

are there any news or questions on this issue?


Mario.



On Wed, 9 May 2007 03:27:00 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 9 May 2007 12:01:42 +0200 Mario Doering <mario@dedenet.de>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > we have a D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port network card in our main router.
> > 
> > It works pretty well most of the time, even though an error
> > message pops up in dmesg every now and then (sometimes once a day
> > sometimes once every few hours).
> > 
> > 
> > But every few weeks those error messages increase rapidly, spamming
> > dmesg. When this happens the system does not react anymore and
> > pushing the reset button is the only option left.
> > 
> > I googled around and found out that other users have same problem,
> > but no solution to this.
> > 
> > 
> > Part of the message log is located here:
> > http://test.dedenet.de/messages.gz
> > or
> > http://test.dedenet.de/messages.txt
> > 
> > 
> > uname -a
> > Linux router1 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 #1 Sat Feb 17 17:04:03 CET 2007 i686
> > AMD Athlon(tm) XP AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
> > 
> > 
> > driver:
> > [   17.364707] sundance.c:v1.2 11-Sep-2006  Written by Donald Becker
> > [   17.364711]   http://www.scyld.com/network/sundance.html
> > [   17.364844] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:04.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level,
> > low) -> IRQ 17 [   17.365396] eth1: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port Server
> > Adapter at 0001bc00, 00:0d:88:cc:a5:f0, IRQ 17. [   17.366350] eth1:
> > MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7829 advertising 01e1.
> > [   17.676491] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:05.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level,
> > low) -> IRQ 18 [   17.676912] eth2: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port Server
> > Adapter at 0001b800, 00:0d:88:cc:a5:f1, IRQ 18. [   17.677864] eth2:
> > MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7809 advertising 01e1.
> > [   17.987730] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:06.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
> > low) -> IRQ 16 [   17.988107] eth3: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port Server
> > Adapter at 0001b400, 00:0d:88:cc:a5:f2, IRQ 16. [   17.989059] eth3:
> > MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7829 advertising 01e1.
> > [   18.298910] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:07.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level,
> > low) -> IRQ 19 [   18.299320] eth4: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port Server
> > Adapter at 0001b000, 00:0d:88:cc:a5:f3, IRQ 19. [   18.300272] eth4:
> > MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7809 advertising 01e1.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > No such error message appears for about 7-10 days after a reboot.
> > Maybe there is some kind of buffer running full?
> > 
> > Do you need any additional info?
> > 
> > 
> > Please CC me :-)
> 
> (cc netdev)

Re: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port NIC problems

[Clemens Koller]

Hi, Mario!

Mario Doering schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> are there any news or questions on this issue?

Can you try the latest kernel to see if the same problem
persists?
Is there any kernel version where it was working fine?

> On Wed, 9 May 2007 03:27:00 -0700
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 9 May 2007 12:01:42 +0200 Mario Doering <mario@dedenet.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> we have a D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port network card in our main router.
>>>
>>> It works pretty well most of the time, even though an error
>>> message pops up in dmesg every now and then (sometimes once a day
>>> sometimes once every few hours).
>>>
>>>
>>> But every few weeks those error messages increase rapidly, spamming
>>> dmesg. When this happens the system does not react anymore and
>>> pushing the reset button is the only option left.
>>>
>>> I googled around and found out that other users have same problem,
>>> but no solution to this.
>>>
>>>
>>> Part of the message log is located here:
>>> http://test.dedenet.de/messages.gz
>>> or
>>> http://test.dedenet.de/messages.txt
>>>
>>>
>>> uname -a
>>> Linux router1 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 #1 Sat Feb 17 17:04:03 CET 2007 i686
>>> AMD Athlon(tm) XP AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
>>>
>>>
>>> driver:
>>> [   17.364707] sundance.c:v1.2 11-Sep-2006  Written by Donald Becker
>>> [   17.364711]   http://www.scyld.com/network/sundance.html
>>> [   17.364844] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:04.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level,
>>> low) -> IRQ 17 [   17.365396] eth1: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port Server
>>> Adapter at 0001bc00, 00:0d:88:cc:a5:f0, IRQ 17. [   17.366350] eth1:
>>> MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7829 advertising 01e1.
>>> [   17.676491] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:05.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level,
>>> low) -> IRQ 18 [   17.676912] eth2: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port Server
>>> Adapter at 0001b800, 00:0d:88:cc:a5:f1, IRQ 18. [   17.677864] eth2:
>>> MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7809 advertising 01e1.
>>> [   17.987730] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:06.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
>>> low) -> IRQ 16 [   17.988107] eth3: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port Server
>>> Adapter at 0001b400, 00:0d:88:cc:a5:f2, IRQ 16. [   17.989059] eth3:
>>> MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7829 advertising 01e1.
>>> [   18.298910] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:07.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level,
>>> low) -> IRQ 19 [   18.299320] eth4: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port Server
>>> Adapter at 0001b000, 00:0d:88:cc:a5:f3, IRQ 19. [   18.300272] eth4:
>>> MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7809 advertising 01e1.
>>>
>>>
>>> No such error message appears for about 7-10 days after a reboot.
>>> Maybe there is some kind of buffer running full?
>>>
>>> Do you need any additional info?
>>>
>>> Please CC me :-)
>> (cc netdev)


Regards,
-- 
Clemens Koller
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Re: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port NIC problems

[adi]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 02:08:09PM +0200, Clemens Koller wrote:
> Can you try the latest kernel to see if the same problem
> persists?
> Is there any kernel version where it was working fine?

In my case, this is 'problem' occur when I do run snmpd on
the same machine, and I saw that snmpd doing something
like this:

    ...
    } else if (ioctl(fd, SIOCDEVPRIVATE, &ifr) >= 0) {
       new_ioctl_nums  = 1;
    }
    ....

That cause sundance printing a lot of debug messages (i.e netdev_ioctl()
in sundance.c) .. periodically, as long as snmpd running :-)

Regards,

P.Y. Adi Prasaja

Re: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port NIC problems

[Mario Doering]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:08:09 +0200
Clemens Koller <clemens.koller@anagramm.de> wrote:

> Hi, Mario!
> 
> Mario Doering schrieb:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > are there any news or questions on this issue?
> 
> Can you try the latest kernel to see if the same problem
> persists?
> Is there any kernel version where it was working fine?


Hello Clemens,

I have tried different kernerls with no success so far. I have not
tried a 2.6.22 kernel yet, but I can do so of course.

It would take some time then again to wait for the error to arise ;-)

Bye,
Mario.