[ale] Problems with Sony laptop ethernet under Linux

[jcphil at mindspring.com (Jim)]

It's entirely possible that the driver included with your kernel version is 
buggy or out of date. Check out this site for comprehensive information on 
NIC drivers:

http://www.scyld.com/network/index.html

There may be a more recent driver for your NIC.

On Wednesday 07 August 2002 05:04 pm, Benjamin Scherrey wrote:
> I've got a Sony VAIO PCG-FX200 dual booting Win2K and RedHat 7.2. Under
> windows the ethernet has no problems. Under linux, however, it simply can't
> handle any bandwidth and locks up. Both win2k & redhat recognize the
> built-in ethernet as an Intel Pro/100 VE and load the correct drivers.
>
> Under linux, I'll ftp a big file. After a few MB it locks up and goes
> nowhere. At that point I can't ping or do anything over the network in any
> other session on the computer. It's like the TCP/IP stack is locked up.
> Eventually it will timeout and start transfering again only to lock up very
> shortly. I get the follow messages in /var/log/messages:
>
> kernel: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!
> last message repeated 24 times
> kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timeout!
> kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050 0c80 at 98
> kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050 0cf0 at 99
>
> Similar messages are strewn throughout. It doesn't seem to be a hardware
> problem because windows doesn't exhibit this behaviour. Anyone have any
> experience in this regard?
>
> 	thanx & later,
>
> 		Ben Scherrey
>
> PS: I've checked ifconfig and route -n and it all looks correct.
>
>
>
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