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Re: Network Card Problems



On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Alexander Indenbaum wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Dec 1997 yannaigo@leyada.jlm.k12.il wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I am having problems with the network card on my server.
> > I am using kernel 2.0.32, and my eth0 is loaded as a module (3c509).
> > Every once in a while, the following message appears on the screen:
> > eth0: transmit timed out, Tx_status 88 status 4004 TxFIFO room 520.
> > (520 changes between different numbers).
> > All network comunication works OK.
> 
> If this card is in use why is it compiled as module?
> Try to compile it staticly into the kernel it *might* solve the problem.

Why should it solve the problem?! It's the same code after all.
My opinion is that you shell check the source and even enlarge the
timeout.

> 
> > 
> > Any thoughts?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Yannai.
> > 
> 
>   Alexander Indenbaum
>   baum@actcom.co.il
> 

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