D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port NIC problems

[Mario Doering <mario@dedenet.de>]

Hello,

we have a D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port network card in our main router.

It works pretty well most of the time, even though an error
message pops up in dmesg every now and then (sometimes once a day
sometimes once every few hours).


But every few weeks those error messages increase rapidly, spamming
dmesg. When this happens the system does not react anymore and pushing
the reset button is the only option left.

I googled around and found out that other users have same problem,
but no solution to this.


Part of the message log is located here:
http://test.dedenet.de/messages.gz
or
http://test.dedenet.de/messages.txt


uname -a
Linux router1 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 #1 Sat Feb 17 17:04:03 CET 2007 i686 AMD
Athlon(tm) XP AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux


driver:
[   17.364707] sundance.c:v1.2 11-Sep-2006  Written by Donald Becker
[   17.364711]   http://www.scyld.com/network/sundance.html
[   17.364844] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:04.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level,
low) -> IRQ 17 [   17.365396] eth1: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port Server
Adapter at 0001bc00, 00:0d:88:cc:a5:f0, IRQ 17. [   17.366350] eth1:
MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7829 advertising 01e1.
[   17.676491] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:05.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level,
low) -> IRQ 18 [   17.676912] eth2: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port Server
Adapter at 0001b800, 00:0d:88:cc:a5:f1, IRQ 18. [   17.677864] eth2:
MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7809 advertising 01e1.
[   17.987730] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:06.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
low) -> IRQ 16 [   17.988107] eth3: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port Server
Adapter at 0001b400, 00:0d:88:cc:a5:f2, IRQ 16. [   17.989059] eth3:
MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7829 advertising 01e1.
[   18.298910] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:07.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level,
low) -> IRQ 19 [   18.299320] eth4: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port Server
Adapter at 0001b000, 00:0d:88:cc:a5:f3, IRQ 19. [   18.300272] eth4:
MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7809 advertising 01e1.



No such error message appears for about 7-10 days after a reboot. Maybe
there is some kind of buffer running full?

Do you need any additional info?


Please CC me :-)

Regards,
Mario.
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