[ale] Problems with Sony laptop ethernet under Linux

[Chris Woodruff]

Take a look at this page for help:

http://www.pm.waw.pl/~jslupski/vaio/

I have a FX220 and this guys page helped me through a lot of issues.

Chris Woodruff


----- Original Message -----
From: "Benjamin Scherrey" <scherrey at proteus-tech.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 5:04 PM
Subject: [ale] Problems with Sony laptop ethernet under Linux


> 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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