From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Di Domenico Subject: sis900 tx timeouts Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:53:49 -0400 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f163.google.com ([209.85.218.163]:38618 "EHLO mail-bw0-f163.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751419AbZDWQxv (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:53:51 -0400 Received: by bwz7 with SMTP id 7so653126bwz.37 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:53:49 -0700 (PDT) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I have an Intel motherboard with an sis900 nic chipset down on the board. When i put the NIC under heavy send traffic i start to see Transmit error's in dmesg and the nic stops sending data. if i do an ifdown eth0; ifup eth0 the nic starts responding again just fine and will run for a while, but eventually the transmit errors return. Can anyone lend advice on how i might fix or help track down this error? thanks --- lspci -vvv 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device d61f Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR-