[Gllug] NetGear fa311 errors & errors & errors ....

[Thomas Robinson]

Can anyone help me determine what's causing these errors? This interface
has only been up since Friday and there has been no-one in the office to
add extra activity to the 'normal' idle network traffic. The host in
question runs sendmail and a DNS slave. The NIC still works but this
ever increasing stream of errors is very offputting.

Is it a hardware problem, a driver problem, a kernel problem, or just my
problem?:-)Any help would be  appreciated.

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:E3:0A:18:15
          inet addr:192.168.0.120  Bcast:192.168.0.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:473164 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:667707 errors:663426 dropped:284 overruns:0
carrier:663426
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xfc00

Regards,

Tom

BTW I'm using a Netgear FA311 NIC on Red Hat 6.2 with kernel 2.2.20. The
current driver is the fa311.o from the Netgear website. I've tried
natsemi.o from Donald Becker but after the first error the driver shuts
itself down.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Robinson 
> Sent: 08 February 2002 12:05
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: RE: [Gllug] NetGear fa311 errors & errors & errors ....
> 
> 
> IMHO the netsemi.o is a better driver - it has configurable 
> options and
> you can access the mii registers with the likes of natsemi-diag or
> mii-diag. Problem is that I have to keep cycling the damn 
> thing whereas
> the fa311 keeps functioning although reporting lots of errors. BTW I
> didn't see a conflict on IRQ11:
> 
> # cat /proc/interrupts
>            CPU0       
>   0:   15993450          XT-PIC  timer
>   1:       8080          XT-PIC  keyboard
>   2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
>  11:     601658          XT-PIC  eth0
>  12:         90          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
>  13:          1          XT-PIC  fpu
>  14:      97349          XT-PIC  ide0
> NMI:          0
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jackson, Harry [mailto:HJackson at colt-telecom.com]
> > Sent: 08 February 2002 11:43
> > To: 'gllug at linux.co.uk'
> > Subject: RE: [Gllug] NetGear fa311 errors & errors & errors ....
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Thomas Robinson [mailto:tom.robinson at ehbas.com]
> > 
> > It would not be something like irq's all muddled up. I have had this
> > problem. I believe you are able to share irq's as long as one 
> > device does
> > not use it. If you check /proc/interrupts it will show you 
> > your current
> > interrupt settings. I could be talking out my arse though.
> > 
> > I have got a netgear that I intend to get working on my rh 
> > box so thanks for
> > the pointers to the modules.
> > 
> > Harry
> > 
> > 

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