I can't believe that nobody has any idea at all about this. My laptop
is a very standard config... there's no way I'm the only one in the
world with this problem, and it's impossible that somebody doesn't know
what this error means. Please... anything at all.
> After leaving my laptop (Compaq Armada M300) running Mandrake 7.2 on for
> a few days, and then performing a large file transfer, my Ethernet card
> (a 3C575 PCMCIA) stops working and /var/log/messages starts getting
> these every 5 seconds:
>
> Feb 11 20:59:35 icarus kernel: diagnostics: net 0ce0 media 8800 dma
> 000000a0.
> Feb 11 20:59:35 icarus kernel: eth0: Tx Ring full, refusing to send
> buffer.
> Feb 11 20:59:40 icarus kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00
> status e000.
>
> So far, the only way I've found to get past this is a reboot. And the
> last time this happened, after rebooting, it only worked for a couple of
> minutes. I used it under Windows for a little while, then brought it
> home on Friday and Linux worked just fine.
>
> I'm guessing this is some sort of issue with either the PCMCIA drivers
> or the driver for this specific card. But since the 3c575 driver isn't
> in the stock kernel sources, I don't know where to go from there... :-(
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