On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 09:53, Sean Estabrooks wrote: > There should have been two additional error lines above the one you > started with. The first one saying "transmit timed out". They would > give important information but my guess would be tthat you have > some bus-mastering device in the machine that is causing problems. > This seems like a hardware configuration problem (time to get your > manuals out) but there's also a chance you've hit a kernel bug.
Sep 24 09:19:30 main kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
status e681.
Sep 24 09:19:30 main kernel: diagnostics: net 0cc2 media a800 dma
0000003a.
Sep 24 09:19:30 main kernel: eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered --
IRQ blocked by another device?
Sep 24 09:19:30 main kernel: Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 19656(8)
current 19656(8)
>
> Make sure you've updated to the latest kernel (because that's an easy
> first step) but if the problems continue you'll have to look at how the
> machines are configured. You may have to swap PCI card locations
> or assign fixed IRQ's for instance. One BIOS option to pay attention
> to is PCI 2.2 enable/disable if it's available.
Kernel = 2.4.22 using the latest source and modules from RH Rawhide. The
problem has been consistent regardless of which kernel is used.
I switched pockets - no difference except I see that hotplugs work just
fine ;-)
What's frustrating is that the system doesn't specify which IRQ wasn't
delivered.
Needless to say this is on my client which is always the oldest machine
in the place. When I have some time, I'll tweak config.opts. I see that
it has the extended port range required for Token Ring for starters.
Thanks.
Oh, this only happens with larger file transfers on the network; Never
with ordinary net traffic.
>
> Good Luck,
> Sean
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