On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 09:14:48AM +0200, Kulcsár Ferenc wrote:
> > > With some NIC's I have the folowing - random - error messeges: "tx
> > > underrun", "watchdog timeout" and "Receiver ring buffer overrun". Why
> are
> > > they? What goes wrong? Are they hardware or software failures?
> >
> > What kind of NIC is it ?
> > Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
> 
> These are NE2000 compatibles NIC's with different Realtek 8029 or 8129
> chips.

ISA or PCI ? In what kind of machine ?

I don't know about the "watchdog timeout" but for other cases, the CPU
can't talk fast enouth with the device to write or read data to/from
fifo. May be because another device blocks the bus for too long.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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