I have a Fedora C1 box that was working correctly from several months. Yesterday I have rebooted after the upgrade to the new kernel 2.4.22-1.2166.nptl and only after that reboot I have found this sequence of errors: 2004-02-17 13:39:27 Kernel.Error 195.223.196.13 kernel: eth1: Transmit error, Tx status register 82. 2004-02-17 13:39:27 Kernel.Error 195.223.196.13 kernel: Probably a duplex mismatch. See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt 2004-02-17 13:39:27 Kernel.Error 195.223.196.13 kernel: Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 50452(4) current 50452(4) 2004-02-17 13:39:27 Kernel.Error 195.223.196.13 kernel: Transmit list 00000000 vs. c8e96300. 2004-02-17 13:39:27 Kernel.Error 195.223.196.13 kernel: 0: @c8e96200 length 8000003e status 0001003e 2004-02-17 13:39:27 Kernel.Error 195.223.196.13 kernel: 1: @c8e96240 length 8000005b status 0001005b 2004-02-17 13:39:27 Kernel.Error 195.223.196.13 kernel: 2: @c8e96280 length 80000036 status 00010036 2004-02-17 13:39:27 Kernel.Error 195.223.196.13 kernel: 3: @c8e962c0 length 8000021f status 8001021f 2004-02-17 13:39:27 Kernel.Error 195.223.196.13 kernel: 4: @c8e96300 length 800000a5 status 000100a5 2004-02-17 13:39:27 Kernel.Error 195.223.196.13 kernel: 5: @c8e96340 length 80000086 status 00010086 2004-02-17 13:39:27 Kernel.Error 195.223.196.13 kernel: 6: @c8e96380 length 80000086 status 00010086 2004-02-17 13:39:27 Kernel.Error 195.223.196.13 kernel: 7: @c8e963c0 length 80000060 status 00010060 2004-02-17 13:39:28 Kernel.Error 195.223.196.13 kernel: 8: @c8e96400 length 80000060 status 00010060 2004-02-17 13:39:28 Kernel.Error 195.223.196.13 kernel: 9: @c8e96440 length 80000036 status 00010036 2004-02-17 13:39:28 Kernel.Error 195.223.196.13 kernel: 10: @c8e96480 length 8000003e status 0001003e 2004-02-17 13:39:28 Kernel.Error 195.223.196.13 kernel: 11: @c8e964c0 length 80000058 status 00010058 2004-02-17 13:39:28 Kernel.Error 195.223.196.13 kernel: 12: @c8e96500 length 80000058 status 00010058 2004-02-17 13:39:28 Kernel.Error 195.223.196.13 kernel: 13: @c8e96540 length 80000050 status 00010050 2004-02-17 13:39:28 Kernel.Error 195.223.196.13 kernel: 14: @c8e96580 length 8000005b status 0001005b 2004-02-17 13:39:28 Kernel.Error 195.223.196.13 kernel: 15: @c8e965c0 length 80000274 status 00010274 The network card is a 3com 3C905TX-B. I have no idea of how duplex is set harware level but for sure it was never changed between reboot. The card is connected to a plain 10Mbps hub so there should be no problem about auto-negotiation. Is that a problem with the new kernel? What should I do? Switch to the old kernel? Thanks Gianni Bragante
