VIA VT6102 Rhine-II + RealTek RTL8139C : file transfer han..

Archived from groups: comp.dcom.lans.ethernet (More info?)

There are many possibilities here, bad cables, bad hardware,
bad/misconfigured drivers, etc.

I'm sure you've checked all the usual stuff. I would suggest checking the
memory with memtest-86, I've seen problems like this before and if it wasn't
a bad NIC or driver problem, it was usually the system memory had an obscure
flakey error.

http://www.memtest86.com/


"Alexandre Oberlin" <alex@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:sqdxe.31246$D7.837965@twister1.libero.it...
> Hi everybody,
>
> I had been connecting laptop and desktop using PLIP for ages without a
> single problem. Then I got a new laptop and upgraded to ethernet.
> Although the speed is amazing compared to PLIP, the transfer of even
> moderately sized files (from 2M about) sometimes hangs the connection.
> This happens as well with ftp than nfs transfers. A file diff accross
> the network may also hang. If I manually remove and restart the network
> interfaces and routes on the desktop system, it wakes up. But then next
> time the transfer hangs, the full desktop system will hang as well, with
> a hard reboot necessary.
> All other network applications I have tried work perfectly (telnet,
> masquerading, rdate). Removing the gateway does not help.
> On Windows XP / 98 the problem does not show, file transfer is OK.
> I have been like this for months. I didnt find anything on group or web
> archives.
> I have strictly no clue. Could someone help me, or tell me where to ask
> if this is not the right place ?
>
> laptop (Estragon), kernel 2.6.7
> module via_rhine
>
> [alex@Estragon alex]$ ifconfig
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:87:F6:39:31
> inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:248 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:253 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:100276 (97.9 Kb) TX bytes:26378 (25.7 Kb)
> Interrupt:10 Base address:0xdc00
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:26 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:26 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:1700 (1.6 Kb) TX bytes:1700 (1.6 Kb)
>
> [alex@Estragon alex]$ route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> Vanille * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0
> 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
> 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
>
>
> desktop computer (Vanille) : kernel 2.4.26
> tried modules rtl8139 and 8139too : same problem
>
> [alex@Vanille alex]$ cat /proc/pci
> Bus 0, device 14, function 0:
> Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 16).
> IRQ 11.
> Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.
> I/O at 0xda00 [0xdaff].
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdffffe00 [0xdffffeff].
>
>
> [alex@Vanille alex]$ ifconfig
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:2E:23:3E:84
> inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:187 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:137 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> Interrupt:11 Base address:0xda00
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:200 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:200 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>
> [alex@Vanille alex]$ route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> Estragon * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0
> 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
>
> [root@Vanille alex]# rtl8139-diag -aem
> rtl8139-diag.c:v2.13 2/28/2005 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
> http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
> Index #1: Found a RealTek RTL8139 adapter at 0xda00.
> The RealTek chip appears to be active, so some registers will not be read.
> To see all register values use the '-f' flag.
> RealTek chip registers at 0xda00
> 0x000: 232e0e00 0000843e 80000000 00000000 0008a07e 0008a09a 0008a07e
> 0008a03c
> 0x020: 013b8010 013b8610 013b8c10 013b9210 013b0000 0d0a0000 714c713c
> 0000c07f
> 0x040: 74400400 0000940e 7e28cc96 00000000 000d1000 00000000 0088e500
> 00100090
> 0x060: 1100f00f 01e1782d 000145e1 00000000 00000704 000107c8 60f60c59
> 7b732660.
> Realtek station address 00:0e:2e:23:3e:84, chip type 'rtl8139C'.
> Receiver configuration: Normal unicast and hashed multicast
> Rx FIFO threshold 256 bytes, maximum burst 256 bytes, 32KB ring
> Transmitter enabled with normal settings, maximum burst 256 bytes.
> Tx entry #0 status 0008a07e complete, 126 bytes.
> Tx entry #1 status 0008a09a complete, 154 bytes.
> Tx entry #2 status 0008a07e complete, 126 bytes.
> Tx entry #3 status 0008a03c complete, 60 bytes.
> Flow control: Tx disabled Rx disabled.
> The chip configuration is 0x10 0x0d, MII half-duplex mode.
> No interrupt sources are pending.
> Decoded EEPROM contents:
> PCI IDs -- Vendor 0x10ec, Device 0x8139.
> PCI Subsystem IDs -- Vendor 0x10ec, Device 0x8139.
> PCI timer settings -- minimum grant 32, maximum latency 64.
> General purpose pins -- direction 0xe5 value 0x12.
> Station Address 00:0E:2E:23:3E:84.
> Configuration register 0/1 -- 0x0d / 0xc2.
> EEPROM active region checksum is 0864.
> The RTL8139 does not use a MII transceiver.
> It does have internal MII-compatible registers:
> Basic mode control register 0x1100.
> Basic mode status register 0x782d.
> Autonegotiation Advertisement 0x01e1.
> Link Partner Ability register 0x45e1.
> Autonegotiation expansion 0x0001.
> Disconnects 0x0000.
> False carrier sense counter 0x0000.
> NWay test register 0x0704.
> Receive frame error count 0x0000.
>



----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==----
http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups
----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =----