RH9 -> FC1: Bus errors on eth0 and eth1

Jan Houtsma list at houtsma.net
Sat Jan 17 21:38:34 UTC 2004


Hello,

I upgraded my system, a Dell Dimension 233 MHz, from RH9 to FC1 and after
the first 
reboot got the following kernel dump:

<QUOTE>
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0e.0
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: 3c59x: Donald Becker and others.
www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: 00:0e.0: 3Com PCI 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx
at 0xfcc0. Vers LK1.1.18-ac
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:  00:60:97:2f:fa:5f, IRQ 9
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:   product code 4848 rev 00.0 date 11-01-96
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:   8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split,
autoselect/MII interface.
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:   MII transceiver found at address 24,
status 782f.
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:   Enabling bus-master transmits and
whole-frame receives.
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: 00:0e.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w
checksums disabled
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: eth0: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum
feature.
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver - version
2.3.18-k1
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: Copyright (c) 2003 Intel Corporation
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: 
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0f.0 
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: e100: eth1: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network
Connection
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: 
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: ip_conntrack version 2.1 (1536 buckets,
12288 max) - 292 bytes per conntrack
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver - version
2.3.18-k1
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: Copyright (c) 2003 Intel Corporation
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: 
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0f.0 
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: e100: eth0: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network
Connection
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: 
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0e.0
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: 3c59x: Donald Becker and others.
www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: 00:0e.0: 3Com PCI 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx
at 0xfcc0. Vers LK1.1.18-ac
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:  00:60:97:2f:fa:5f, IRQ 9
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:   product code 4848 rev 00.0 date 11-01-96
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:   64K word-wide RAM 1:1 Rx:Tx split,
autoselect/10baseT interface.
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:   Enabling bus-master transmits and
whole-frame receives.
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: 00:0e.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w
checksums disabled
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: eth1: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum
feature.
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel: eth1: Transmit error, Tx status register d0.
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:   Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 1(1) current
1(1)
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:   Transmit list 00000000 vs. cabe2240. 
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:   0: @cabe2200  length 8000002a status
8000002a
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:   1: @cabe2240  length 00000000 status
00000000
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:   2: @cabe2280  length 00000000 status
00000000
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:   3: @cabe22c0  length 00000000 status
00000000
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:   4: @cabe2300  length 00000000 status
00000000
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:   5: @cabe2340  length 00000000 status
00000000
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:   6: @cabe2380  length 00000000 status
00000000
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:   7: @cabe23c0  length 00000000 status
00000000
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:   8: @cabe2400  length 00000000 status
00000000
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:   9: @cabe2440  length 00000000 status
00000000
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:   10: @cabe2480  length 00000000 status
00000000
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:   11: @cabe24c0  length 00000000 status
00000000
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:   12: @cabe2500  length 00000000 status
00000000
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:   13: @cabe2540  length 00000000 status
00000000
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:   14: @cabe2580  length 00000000 status
00000000
Jan 16 13:09:19 pegasus kernel:   15: @cabe25c0  length 00000000 status
00000000
</QUOTE

Never had that with RH9 and before. This dump of the transmit error repeats
itself every 
few seconds. I tried several different combinations of LAN cards with 3Com,
Intel and 
realtec for eth0 and eth1 also on different PCI slots everytime.

3Com/3Com gives this failure as wel 3Com/Intel Pro. Only the combo
3Com/RealTec did 
not cause this and now runs fine. 

Why can't i use 2 3Com cards anymore or a 3Com card with a Intel Pro 100
card???????

What causes these messages? Faulty drivers maybe? This was immediatelly
after the 
upgrade from CDROM but before running up2date on the new Fedora server.

Thanks,

--
Jan





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