[ale] unusual problem with nic

[Dow Hurst]

You can test this NIC with Becker's mii tool.  It will do a low level 
test IIRC.  I think the driver might need an option to increase buffer 
size.  Those hex codes might be meaningful if you look at Donald 
Becker's site.  Let me know what you find out.  I'd google on this but 
have run out of ALE time...
Night,
Dow

Geoffrey wrote:
>I'm having an unusual problem with a compaq computer.  Just installed 
>SuSE 10.0 and all went well, except when it attempted to do the online 
>update and get latest release notes.  Figured I'd work on that after the 
>full install.
>
>Now that the box is installed, I can browse websites fine, very fast. 
>Problem is, when I attempt to run online update, it stalls.  Looking at 
>dmesg output I see the following:
>
>NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
>eth0: Transmit timeout, status 0c 0005 c07f media 10.
>eth0: Tx queue start entry 4  dirty entry 0.
>eth0:  Tx descriptor 0 is 0008a03c. (queue head)
>eth0:  Tx descriptor 1 is 0008a03c.
>eth0:  Tx descriptor 2 is 0008a03c.
>eth0:  Tx descriptor 3 is 0008a03c.
>eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
>
>I've tried modifying the MTU value, but that doesn't seem to make any 
>difference.  Can't seem to ssh in or out of the box either.
>
>I can abort the update and restart it and it'll sometimes make some 
>progress.  Right now I've only been able to update 50% of the necessary 
>packages.
>
>Anyone seen anything like this?
>
>