Re: Re-Installation of 3c59x
Donald Becker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
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). I > downloaded the pci-scan.* and 3c59x.c files from the scyld website. First time > when I install the pci-scan.o and 3c59x.o modules with the "insmod" command, > the driver gets installed, dhcp gets called and everything works fine. Good... > I stop > the driver by "/etc/rc.d/init/network stop" or "/sbin/ifdown eth0". Then I > remove the modules using "rmmod". Again if I install the driver with "insmod" > the modules gets installed but packets are not transmitted, giving a host > error. I have to restart the machine to make it work again. By "restart the machine", do you mean a hard power off? > -----Kernel messages after Installing 3c59x for the first time----------- > Nov 12 11:52:57 localhost kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99X 6/21/2002 Donald Becker, ... > Nov 12 11:52:57 localhost kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at > 0xdc80, 00:c0:4f:ae:6c:eb, IRQ 11 > Nov 12 11:52:57 localhost kernel: 8K buffer 3:5 Rx:Tx split, MII interface. .. > -----Kernel messages after Installing 3c59x for the Second time----------- .. > Nov 12 11:54:35 localhost kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at > 0xdc80, 00:c0:4f:ae:6c:eb, IRQ 11 > Nov 12 11:54:35 localhost kernel: 64K buffer 1:1 Rx:Tx split, > autoselect/10baseT interface. Ahhh, something horrible has happened. The chip has changed its idea of how much internal buffer space it has! > Nov 12 11:54:48 localhost kernel: eth0: Host error, status e803, FIFO > diagnostic register 0000. Which results in this massive internal confusion that cannot be reset... Can you provide any more details about your installation? I want to figure out how this could have happened. -- Donald Becker [email protected] Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Scyld Beowulf cluster system Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 _______________________________________________ vortex mailing list [email protected] http://www.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/vortex