Re: [E1000-devel] Timeout Problem

[Jeff K. <jef...@in...>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Zils, Stephan <ste...@ea...> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> my name ist Stephan Zils and I'm a System-Ingenieer at
> EADS in Germany. We have a problem with the e100 Linux driver.
>
> >From time to time, the driver will be restartet. See following kernel msg:
>
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mps, half-duplex
>
> Looking in internet, we found some hints, that a driver problem could be the problem,
> what is fixed in newer versions.
>
> We use the Linux Kernel 2.6.17.14. We can't update to a newer Kernel, because we need
> this version for the RTAI patch what we use.
>
> The Kernel is running on two different PC-104 Boards in our systems.
>
> The older one shows this HW Info with lspci:
> 00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 8255xER/82551IT Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 09)
>
> The newer one shows this:
> 00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 8255xER/82551IT Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 10)
>
> The problem what we have, could only be seen on the newer boards with Rev 10 !!
>
> I hope that you can help us, to solve this problem. If we can fix it in the Kernel source, without
> updating the whole kernel, it would be a good solution.
>
> Thanks for your efforts
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Stephan Zils
>
>

What version of e100 are you running?  In kernel 2.6.17, the e100
driver revision was 3.5.10.  My first suggestion, since you are not
able to upgrade the kernel version would be to try using our 3.5.17
version of the e100 driver which can be downloaded from
http://e1000.sourceforge.net.

-- 
Cheers,
Jeff