[lug] Transmit error, Tx status register 82

[Riggs, Rob]

There are two drivers for this card. Donald Becker's driver is the 3c59x
driver. 3Com has released their own 3c90x driver for this series. I've had
much better luck with the 3Com driver. You may need to go to 3Com's site to
pick up the driver.

As others have already mentioned, this does sound like your card is not in
the proper duplex mode. If you use the 3c59x driver, you may want to hunt
through the kernel docs to find the right module parameter to force it into
the proper duplex mode.

-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Murray [mailto:gmurray at Mines.EDU]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 3:41 PM
To: 'lug at lug.boulder.co.us'
Subject: RE: [lug] Transmit error, Tx status register 82


Thanks for the responses:

The card is a 3Com EtherLink XL PCI TPC NIC (3C900B-TPC).
I have no idea what the driver is, how do I find out?  I am
running an up-to-date stable Debian system, kernel 2.2.17.

Could this be an ipchains problem?  I do not think this
is a hardware problem because:  

This is a dual boot machine and I have no problems while
running under Win2K. Also, under Linux, I don't seem to have
any problem with large downloads via http.  I've noticed the
problem when I email an attachment with pine, download via
ssh with cvs, and scp.  I have none of these problems while
running Win2K.

Thanks for the help, this is driving me crazy.
Glenn Murray
http://www.mines.edu/~gmurray/public_html/Welcome.html

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Riggs, Rob wrote:

> What make & model is the network card? Which NIC driver (and version) are
> you using? What kernel version are you running?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn Murray [mailto:gmurray at Mines.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 2:37 PM
> To: Boulder Linux User's Group
> Subject: [lug] Transmit error, Tx status register 82
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would really appreciate help with the following problem.  My
> workstation syslog is filling up with error messages such as:
> 
> Sep 21 14:19:27 adrenaline kernel: eth0:Transmit error, Tx status register
> 82
> Sep 21 14:20:44 adrenaline last message repeated 4 times
> Sep 21 14:21:48 adrenaline last message repeated 25 times
> Sep 21 14:22:30 adrenaline last message repeated 13 times
> 
> and scp has been taking forever.  What could this be?
> 
> Any help greatly appreciated,
> Glenn Murray
> www.mines.edu/~gmurray/public_html/Welcome.html
> 
> 
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