2.3.39 and eepro transmitter restart

[Savochkin Andrey Vladimirovich]

Hello,

On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 09:06:59AM -0500, atodosic en ubisoft.qc.ca wrote:
> i have a couple of different revisions of intel ethet express pro 10/100 and
> they all behave on 2.3.39
> (i think the last one i tired was 2.3.18 and everything was fine) 
> 
> i keep getting :
> 
> Jan 18 21:54:56 dumbo kernel: eth0: Trying to restart the transmitter... 
> Jan 19 08:48:38 dumbo kernel: eth0: Trying to restart the transmitter... 
> 
> Obviously the link goes down and sometimes comes back sometimes i have to
> ping from the console to wake it up. 
> 
> 
> Is this a known issue or not , and if it is how do i get around it ( other
> than changing cards ) ? 

"Trying to restart the transmitter" message is sympthom of a problem.
Transmitter hang may be caused by various reasons starting from temporary
out-of-memory conditions and up to a hardware failure.

You may wish to get a driver from
ftp://ftp.nc.orc.ru/pub/Linux/people/saw/kernel/
and use it with debug=3 option in /etc/conf.modules.
The driver gives more commets about what's happening.

Regards
					Andrey V.
					Savochkin

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