"e100" ethernet driver problem in AC-1.0 and Centos-4.2

[Jay Estabrook]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 01:39:09AM +0300, Pasi Pirhonen wrote:
> 
> I don't frankly remember anymore how it was with above AlphaCore
> kernel, but there definetly is something funky going on with the
> 2.6.9-22.EC too. I don't see any unalligned access with it (as in
> dmesg), but when there is heavy NFS-load (like install or when i do
> move stuff between my ES45 and my NFS-server) there is these
> 
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
> 
> every 15secs or so and the traffic just stops for few secs and starts
> again.

Oh, I've been seeing those as well.

I've been assuming that it was related; I guess we'll see.

Easiest way to attack this is to build the "e100" driver into the
kernel, then the faulting addresses will be KSEG/physical and not
dynamic/virtual.

> My card being one of those compaq dual/quad (mine is dual) adapters.

Yup, that's a DE602 (dual).

 --Jay++

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