Ethernet problem

[James Wilkinson]

Guillermo Garron wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> today unfortunatly i unpluged my server from the power source without
> turning it off.
> 
> now when i turn it on i have this output to the /var/log/messages
> 
> Nov 11 07:08:08 scz kernel: eth1: Transmit error, Tx status register 90.
> Nov 11 07:08:08 scz kernel:   Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 37(5) current 37(5)
> Nov 11 07:08:08 scz kernel:   Transmit list 00000000 vs. cc3bb520.
> Nov 11 07:08:08 scz kernel:   0: @cc3bb200  length 8000002a status 0001002a

<snip>

> i had to disconnecte that eth card and install another one in order to
> continue having my nat-firewall router.
> 
> i tried to reboot the pc and also the card, and the network varius times
> but still with the same result.

So without the network card (and with the replacement card) the machine
works fine? It's just the one network card that's causing problems?

Does the new network card use the same driver as the old one?

If so, then I'd say you've fried the old network card. Unless it was a
gigabit card, network cards are *cheap* these days. Just replace it and
move on.

Even if the cards use different drivers, then you've *still* probably
fried the network card. You might want to try booting with a different
kernel, and see if that does anything (there's a minute chance something
happened to the way the driver was stored on disk). But that's very
improbable.

Hope this helps,

James.

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