[ale] Problems with Sony laptop ethernet under Linux

[Joseph A Knapka]

Benjamin Scherrey wrote:
> 

I'd check for a more recent driver first, as Jim suggested.
If that fails, I'd ask the following questions:

(1) Is Windoze using the card in 100Mb mode or merely 10Mb
mode?

(2) Is Windoze going full-duplex or half-duplex?

(3) Is the card set up the same under Linux as under
Windoze wrt those two parameters?

Cheers,

-- Joe

> I've got a Sony VAIO PCG-FX200 dual booting Win2K and RedHat 7.2. Under windows the
> ethernet has no problems. Under linux, however, it simply can't handle any bandwidth and locks up.
> Both win2k & redhat recognize the built-in ethernet as an Intel Pro/100 VE and load the correct
> drivers.
> 
> Under linux, I'll ftp a big file. After a few MB it locks up and goes nowhere. At that point I can't ping
> or do anything over the network in any other session on the computer. It's like the TCP/IP stack is
> locked up. Eventually it will timeout and start transfering again only to lock up very shortly. I get the
> follow messages in /var/log/messages:
> 
> kernel: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!
> last message repeated 24 times
> kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timeout!
> kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050 0c80 at 98
> kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050 0cf0 at 99
> 
> Similar messages are strewn throughout. It doesn't seem to be a hardware problem because
> windows doesn't exhibit this behaviour. Anyone have any experience in this regard?
> 
>         thanx & later,
> 
>                 Ben Scherrey
> 
> PS: I've checked ifconfig and route -n and it all looks correct.
> 
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