Petr Sebor <petr@scssoft.com> wrote:
> Well, I have almost went nuts about that card, after I have discovered a
> small
> notice on Donald Becker's RTL site that some older motherboards do not
> support PCI burst modes and that this may be the cause of the problem...
> My motherboard is not that old, but it is noname VX-PRO II board.. god
> knows who manufactured it. I have borrowed different board from another
> computer ( actually VX-PRO+ chipset on noname board but with AWARD
> BIOS instead of AMI ) and the card now runs like a charm... perfectly...
Some followup from here...
I have a no-name SiS900 based card in a Tyan Trinity S1590S board (VIA
Apollo 82C597/82C586B VP3 based) just in case someone has a clue about
PCI burst modes or not.
Here's what happens when producing some traffic using ping. The driver
version is 1.08 from a SuSE 6.2 kernel.
Jan 4 17:21:39 seneca kernel: eth1: Transmit timeout, status 08 0000 media 00.
Jan 4 17:21:39 seneca kernel: eth1: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0, full.
Jan 4 17:21:39 seneca kernel: eth1: Tx descriptor 0 is 00000000. (queue head)
Jan 4 17:21:39 seneca kernel: eth1: Tx descriptor 1 is 0000003c.
Jan 4 17:21:39 seneca kernel: eth1: Tx descriptor 2 is 00000000.
Jan 4 17:21:39 seneca kernel: eth1: Tx descriptor 3 is 30000020.
Jan 4 17:21:39 seneca kernel: eth1: MII #32 registers are: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000.
Any clue as to what is wrong?
I'll try a replacement card with a vanilla RTL8139B as well.
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