Tulip driver & ADMtek Comet rev17 freezing

Hi All,

I'm new to this list so excuse the possible newbie post!

I've had a batch of lurverly Fujitsu Siemens Scenic PCs that i've duly 
installed slakware linux on them. On all but one the tulip driver is running 
the NICs without problems.
On the single machine thats causing problems i've tried everything, and now 
starting to suspect a hardware issue, however I wanted to get a little 
feedback on this from here if possible.

Evern 2-3 minutes the card seems to freeze, not accept any traffic in/out, 
then suddenly start up again after about 30 seconds. The switch shows the 
link as dropping then it re-negotiates back up to 100mb.

Machine data follows:

Linux version 2.4.20
Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre12 (Aug 9, 2002)
eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0xe09a6000, 00:30:05:3B:A0:5C, IRQ 9.

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:05:3B:A0:5C
          inet addr:217.22.144.10  Bcast:217.22.144.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:24484 errors:108 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:216
          TX packets:18754 errors:3 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:6
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:2775948 (2.6 Mb)  TX bytes:3229527 (3.0 Mb)
          Interrupt:9 Base address:0x6000


Every time it bugs out, the errors increases.
Can anyone advise how to check the card more, etc. Or would my conclusion that 
its a faulty nic ring true?

many thanks!


-- 
Andy Brown


"Write a wise saying and your name will live forever" -- Anonymous

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