I've been running this card and it's variants (3c905, 3c905b) for a
couple of years. I can't say I've seen this behaviour though. I'm
currently running kernel 2.2.13pre something - whatever shipped with
Mandrake 6.1. Here's some output that may or may not help:
>From dmesg:
3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/
vortex.html
eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xe000, 00:60:08:31:bc:f8, IRQ
10
8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/MII interface.
MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786d.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
Output of ifconfig eth0: (note this machine was rebooted this am for
other reasons)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:08:31:BC:F8
inet addr:192.168.1.6 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:14698 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:11923 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:28 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe000
bellis@mail.co.gilchrist.fl.us wrote:
>
> I've got an AMD K6-2 based system on a FIC VA503+ MVP3 chipset Computer
> with a 3Com 905B-TX ethercard in it that sporadically decides to quit
> transmitting or receiving. Usually occurs when I load the machine
> a bit (i.e. start an ftp on the local lan from another well
> connected machine), but its not really that readily repeatable. Usually
> happens over the weekend when im trying to get something done from home :P
> Network traffic just stops, no errors logged, nothing abnormal that I can
> tell. A simple
>
> # ifconfig eth0 down
> # ifconfig eth0 up
>
> and it starts working again.
>
> Any ideas? I've tried 2.2.12 and 2.3.40 kernels under RedHat 6.1.
>
> -b
>
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