On Thursday 01 March 2001 04:52, Joost Kremers wrote:
hi all,
i have SuSE6.4 running on my machine, which is connected to my employer's network via an ethernet card (intel etherexpress pro 10+). most of the time, things are running fine. every now and then, however, the ethernet driver (eepro) gives the following message:
eth0: XMT status: 0xffff80e0
(the actual number differs.) when this happens, i lose my connection. so far, the only way i've found to get it back again is to reboot. but that can be a problem, because i often have a network drive mounted (via samba), which (apparently) cannot be unmounted when the connection is down. result: i have to press the reset button, which is something i do not like doing, since i always tell my friends (most of whom think i'm nuts running linux anyway... :-) that you can usually recover nicely when something crashes, unlike some operating system we know...
does anybody know what happens when the driver spits out this message? and does anybody know a way to get the connection back again without rebooting? i guess it would be enough if i could shut down eth0 manually and then start it again.
any tips? TIA
joost
Joost, I don't know what the error message means, but I do know I have problems with SMB connections which are left hanging. If I shut down my NT box while I have a drive mounted on a linux box using mount -t smbfs ..., I cannot get the Linux box to get past releasing the SMB connection, and thus have to use the on/off control. This is a very longstanding issue with smbmount. I've never called it to the attention of the SaMBa folks, but you ask a VERY good question. Steve