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RE: [Wlug] weird ethernet problem...
by Keller, Tim 30 May '02

30 May '02

Well I'm running rh7.3 and I've got another box with this same card running 7.3 as well on the same network without a problem?? Weirdness. Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Charles R. Anderson [mailto:cra@WPI.EDU] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 11:55 AM To: 'wlug(a)mail.wlug.org' Subject: Re: [Wlug] weird ethernet problem... On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:48:21AM -0400, Keller, Tim wrote: Tim.Keller> http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2002-February/001688.html Tim.Keller> I also looked at the next message and I'm already running the eepro100 Tim.Keller> driver. Ahh. So it looks like it was a crappy card/driver problem after all. I did see somewhere else that you might want to download the driver from Intel and try that instead...of course I think that was the e100 they were referring to in that message :-/ -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886 _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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RE: [Wlug] weird ethernet problem...
by Keller, Tim 30 May '02

30 May '02

I just changed the format of the netstat so it would be more readable. also, I found a message that accurately describes the problem... http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2002-February/001688.html I also looked at the next message and I'm already running the eepro100 driver. Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Charles R. Anderson [mailto:cra@WPI.EDU] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 11:36 AM To: 'wlug(a)mail.wlug.org' Subject: Re: [Wlug] weird ethernet problem... On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:16:48AM -0400, Keller, Tim wrote: Tim.Keller> here's what netstat -i gives me... Tim.Keller> Thanks, Tim.Keller> Tim. Tim.Keller> Tim.Keller> Iface: eth0 Tim.Keller> mtu: 1500 Tim.Keller> met: 0 Tim.Keller> rx-ok: 0 Tim.Keller> rx-err: 0 Tim.Keller> rx-drp: 0 Tim.Keller> rx-ovr: 0 Tim.Keller> tx-ok: 0 Tim.Keller> tx-err: 0 Tim.Keller> tx-ovr: 3 Tim.Keller> flg: BMRU That's a strange netstat. I've never seen output formatted like that before. tx-ovr (overruns) is the statistic to watch out for. What does lspci -v -v say about your ethernet card? Any other relavent dmesg output? -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886 _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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RE: [Wlug] weird ethernet problem...
by Keller, Tim 30 May '02

30 May '02

here's what netstat -i gives me... Thanks, Tim. Iface: eth0 mtu: 1500 met: 0 rx-ok: 0 rx-err: 0 rx-drp: 0 rx-ovr: 0 tx-ok: 0 tx-err: 0 tx-ovr: 3 flg: BMRU -----Original Message----- From: Charles R. Anderson [mailto:cra@WPI.EDU] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 10:51 AM To: 'wlug(a)wlug.org' Subject: Re: [Wlug] weird ethernet problem... On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:08:52AM -0400, Keller, Tim wrote: Tim.Keller> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out status 7088 0c00 at 241/301 Tim.Keller> command 001c000 Tim.Keller> Tim.Keller> the box has a Intel 10/100 Pro card running at 100 full duplex. Is the port the card is plugged into also running at full duplex? If autonegotiation is disabled on only one end of the link, you will have a duplex mismatch since the other end will fall back to half duplex. Always use autonegotiation on both ends, or on neither end. Any other errors? What does netstat -i show? Tim.Keller> I hooked up a win2k laptop configured it to the proper ip in the DMZ and it Tim.Keller> worked fine, so I know it's not the link. Try running tcpdump or ethereal on the link. I usually use tcpdump to write to a file, then copy it to my workstation and load it into ethereal there: server# tcpdump -i eth0 -s 1500 -w capture.pcap (the -s 1500 makes sure it captures the whole ethernet frames) I usually see these errors due to one of three reasons: 1. the netcard and/or driver is misconfigured (duplex, interrupt, etc.) 2. the netcard and/or driver is buggy or bad (usually seen on 3c503's :) 3. there is a TON of traffic on the network which is causing the card to not be able to keep up with the reception and transmission of all the packets. -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886 _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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weird ethernet problem...
by Keller, Tim 30 May '02

30 May '02

I just moved a box from a testing network to a DMZ network and I'm getting all this weird ethernet crap... here's the error's I keep getting NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out status 7088 0c00 at 241/301 command 001c000 the commands are different along with the status codes. the box has a Intel 10/100 Pro card running at 100 full duplex. I hooked up a win2k laptop configured it to the proper ip in the DMZ and it worked fine, so I know it's not the link. Thanks, Tim.

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USB Driver: Where to start?
by Bill Smith 30 May '02

30 May '02

Folks, I've got this idiot little USB camera that I got as part of a promotion. (Specifically, it's a QuickVideo weeCam USB from Alaris that I got a couple years back from Earthlink.) Near as I can figure, there are no drivers for this fool thing for Linux. IF I were to attack the problem, where should I start? I've noticed in the logs that the system sees it when it is connected and disconnected, so I suppose that's a Good Thing, but I don't know where to go from there. Bear in mind that I've never had to write anything like this before, so I'll be starting with a clean slate, as it were... 8\ Any assistance would be appreciated. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com Wherever you go, there you are. * TAG! v3.0 *

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FORSALE: DEC 3000 model 900
by Phillip G Deneault 29 May '02

29 May '02

Full size DEC 3000 model 900 275mhz Alpha 128 megs of RAM 7 internal drive bays 50-pin SCSI, 2 bus chains 1 4 gig hard drive, 1 dual speed caddy CD-ROM built in ethernet RGB video card w/21 inch RGB monitor cables, mice, keyboards, etc Works well, provided as is...$300 obo I run Tru64 on it and I am not sure if Linux will run on it. Any questions e-mail me Phil -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Phil Deneault "We work in the dark, We do what we can, deneault(a)wpi.edu We give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, WPI NetOps and our passion is our task. The rest is the OpenVMS Guy maddness of art." - Henry James -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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Another auction
by Theo Van Dinter 29 May '02

29 May '02

This looks like it's got some good stuff in it. Anyone need an E10k? ;) http://www.dovebid.com/Auctions/AuctionDetail.asp?auctionID=1141 -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'OK' first." - Arno Schaefer's .sig

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Sendmail
by Joe Riopel 27 May '02

27 May '02

I have sendmail set up here at work, and everyone can send email fine, except when I try to send using the good old mail command.. it tells me "Can't create transcript file ./xfg4OGa2S21960: Permission denied queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfg4OGa2S21960, uid=500: Permission denied" I have tried doing chmod 777 on the "/var/spool/mqueue" and it still fails. However when I use pine and set my smtp server to box.domain.com ( the localhosts name ) I am able to send fine. This problem is preventing a webmail client I wrote from sending mail... Any ideas? Thanks, Joe

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D-Link Fast ethernet adapter
by Joe Riopel 27 May '02

27 May '02

Hi all, I got mdk 7.2 installed on a Toshiba Satellite, everything works great except the networking =[ I have a D-Link Fast Ethernet PCMCIA adapter. Model no: DFE-670TXD. I can't seem to get Linuux to recognize it :( Has anyone got one of these successfully working?? If so please let me know how. Thanks

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SCSI reset error
by Chuck Homic 26 May '02

26 May '02

Hey guys... from my syslog: May 22 17:05:28 biznatch kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 5591, scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 61 01 11 00 00 80 00 May 22 17:05:28 biznatch kernel: (scsi0:0:2:0) SCSISIGI 0x44, SEQADDR 0x110, SSTAT0 0x0, SSTAT1 0x3 May 22 17:05:28 biznatch kernel: (scsi0:0:2:0) SG_CACHEPTR 0x0, SSTAT2 0xf, STCNT 0xe8 May 22 17:05:29 biznatch kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 5591) timed out - resetting May 22 17:05:29 biznatch kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. May 22 17:05:30 biznatch kernel: (scsi0:0:2:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. Can anyone who knows more about SCSI tell me what can cause a command timeout, etc... Do I need a terminator or something? I thought my configuration was right, since I can transfer hundreds of megabytes between errors. Can a problem with terminator configuration even be that subtle? (Forgive a SCSI newbie!) So, the error resolves itself in 7 seconds, and no data is lost, so maybe I don't care. ;) Really, the problem is that it muddies up the console when it happens, and I have to press ^a l. The system is a decade-old experimental dual Pentium-133 running 2.2.21 SMP, with an onboard AIC-7870 (with a BIOS that says "EVALUATION VERSION. DO NOT DISTRIBUTE.") and a 4GB Western Digital Enterprise that someone told me was dead. Heh... okay that sounds pretty bad. So, I guess only pay attention to the terminator question. ;) Thanks. -Chuck

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