Re: Re-Installation of 3c59x

Bogdan Costescu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel
Message-ID <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211192034100.19293-100000@kenzo.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Anup Pemmaiah wrote:

> I am facing difficulties while installing the 3c59x driver for the
> second time.I have a 3c905 NIC. The version of linux kernel is 2.4(RH-
> 7.3).

Did you try the driver that is supplied by RedHat and failed ?

> Nov 12 11:52:57 localhost kernel: 8K buffer 3:5 Rx:Tx split, MII interface.

vs.

> Nov 12 11:54:35 localhost kernel: 64K buffer 1:1 Rx:Tx split, 
> autoselect/10baseT interface.

EEPROM reads seem to be strange at this point.

> Nov 12 11:54:48 localhost kernel: eth0: Host error, status 8003, FIFO 
> diagnostic register 2000.

This is an Rx Underrun.

But I don't know what is going on, maybe there are some power related 
problems...

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Bogdan Costescu

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