At 06:31 PM 1/28/2001, Matthew wrote:
Hey you are getting an error message! Thats something at least :-).
I have little idea what it means though.....Its probably outside of most peoples realm here.
Try subscribing to the tulip mailing list on scyld.com. Only takes a few minutes to setup, but someone may know precisely the causes of this problem.
Who is the manufacturer of the card?
It's a Netgear FA310TX. I read through parts of the Scyld tulip list and discovered that this is a known bug with some recent versions of the tulip chipset. Basically, under heavy traffic that generates frame collisions, the chipset gets "confuse" and writes garbage to some frames. This causes the error message to happen, and, subsequently, shut downs the NIC. This is a common problem if the tulip NIC is not set to "auto-negotiation" and it's linked to a 10baseT hub. It's supposed to be less common if you are using a 100baseT hub. I verified that my file server and windows box were set correctly (they both have a FA310TX), I was able to transfer 95% of my files over before the network dropped out. I decided to get a new network card with a different chipset to eliminate the random crashes. I already spent several weeks determining that this wasn't a Windows/Samba/RAID/ReiserFS/kernel problem. I just subscribed to the tulip list, and will probably be on another Scyld list when I get the new card. Thanks for the help! Christopher Reimer