Re: 2.6.0-test[56] pcnet32 problems

From: Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech_at_suse.cz)
Date: 09/30/03

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    Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2003 06:56:47 +0200
To: Danny ter Haar <dth@ncc1701.cistron.net>

    On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:13:11AM +0000, Danny ter Haar wrote:
    > Got an cyrix box with built in ethernet & 2 extra ethernet cards
    > as a firewall at home with a dsl line (connected to eth0)
    >
    > pcnet32.c:v1.27b 01.10.2002 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
    > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:0f.0
    > IRQ routing conflict for 0000:00:0f.0, have irq 9, want irq 11
    > pcnet32: PCnet/FAST III 79C973 at 0xfca0, warning: CSR address invalid,
    > using instead PROM address of 00 00 e2 24 41 1d assigned IRQ 9.
    > eth0: registered as PCnet/FAST III 79C973
    > pcnet32: 1 cards_found.
    >
    > Sometimes (even during low traffic) eth0 simply locks up:
    > In dmesg i see:
    > kernel: eth0: Bus master arbitration failure, status 88f3.
    >
    > rmmod pcnet32 results in kernel-panic.
    > Only reboot works.
    > tried:
    > acpi == disabled
    > pci=noacpi
    >
    > Another weird thing is output of ifconfig eth0:
    >
    > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:E2:24:41:1D
    > inet addr:195.64.94.48 Bcast:195.64.94.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
    > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
    > RX packets:30345 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    > TX packets:0 errors:16042 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:16042
    > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
    > RX bytes:38404293 (36.6 MiB) TX bytes:1298028 (1.2 MiB)
    > Interrupt:9 Base address:0xfca0
    >
    > 0 packets transmitted , all errors ans carrier faults ?
    > Still it works! (this could be counters that are wrong)
    >
    > kernel config, lspci -v and dmesg output available at:
    >
    > http://dth.net/kernel/
    >
    > Any help/suggestions/hints appreciated.

    Upgrade ifconfig? 

    -- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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