Inconsistent Problems with 3C509B Network Card

We are using 3COM 3C509B network card with Net.ether509 driver on QNX 4.24.
We have occational inconsistent network failures. Sometimes the whole
network connection is lost - no process crashed, and activities continue as
usual, but no network connection is possible, until we restart the QNX.
We have experienced also other failure during file transfer from another
computer (Sun). In that case non-NFS connections are possible.

We don’t have these problems with other cards we use. Also, the same 3COM
card is used (with Windows) in another product with no problems.

The initialization is with the command:
Net.ether509 -i 5 -v -l 2 &

Does anyone know about problems with this board/driver, or how to set it
correctly?

What is the version of the driver that you are running (sin ver) ? This
driver hasn’t changed in over 3 years! What is the output from netinfo and
netinfo -l when the network dies?

Previously, Danny Gera wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:

We are using 3COM 3C509B network card with Net.ether509 driver on QNX 4.24.
We have occational inconsistent network failures. Sometimes the whole
network connection is lost - no process crashed, and activities continue as
usual, but no network connection is possible, until we restart the QNX.
We have experienced also other failure during file transfer from another
computer (Sun). In that case non-NFS connections are possible.

We don’t have these problems with other cards we use. Also, the same 3COM
card is used (with Windows) in another product with no problems.

The initialization is with the command:
Net.ether509 -i 5 -v -l 2 &

Does anyone know about problems with this board/driver, or how to set it
correctly?

Danny Gera <danny-g@orbotech.com> wrote:

We are using 3COM 3C509B network card with Net.ether509 driver on QNX 4.24.
We have occational inconsistent network failures. Sometimes the whole
network connection is lost - no process crashed, and activities continue as
usual, but no network connection is possible, until we restart the QNX.
We have experienced also other failure during file transfer from another
computer (Sun). In that case non-NFS connections are possible.

I have terrific experience (after two week of course the driver had to be
restared to renew LAN connection and the application was deployed in nuclear
power plant) with this driver under QNX4.24, I had to use another card type.

Andy

We don’t have these problems with other cards we use. Also, the same 3COM
card is used (with Windows) in another product with no problems.

The initialization is with the command:
Net.ether509 -i 5 -v -l 2 &

Does anyone know about problems with this board/driver, or how to set it
correctly?

The version of the Net.ether509 driver is 4.24A frpm Jul 04 1997. Is there a
newer driver? Where can I get it?

netinfo output (the other network - Net.fd - is using serial port):

After network dies:
Total Number Of Net Driver Slots: 2

Driver Slot 0: Driver Pid 36 Logical Net 2 Network Card: Ethernet/3Com509

Ethernet Physical Node ID … 0x00104B 961917
I/O Port Range … 0x240 → 0x24F
Hardware Interrupt … 5

Total Packets Txd OK … 22427
Tx Pkts Deferred … 2536
Tx Pkts, One Collision … 192
Tx Pkts, Multiple Collisions … 314
Tx Pkts, Late Collisions [Bad] … 0
Carrier Sense Lost on Tx … 0
SQE Missing on Tx … 0
Total Bytes Txd OK … 2214474

Total Packets Rxd OK … 208295
Pkts Rxd With Dribble Bits … 0
Pkts Rxd With Framing Errors … 0
Pkts Rxd With CRC Errors… 0
Runt Pkts Rxd … 0
Giant Pkts Rxd … 0
Rx FIFO Overrun … 0
Total Bytes Rxd OK … 16502667


Driver Slot 1: Driver Pid 37 Logical Net 1 Network Card: Ethernet/Net.fd

Ethernet Physical Node ID … 0x000000 000001

Packets Txd OK … 15974
Packets Txd w/Hdr Compression … 0
Packets Txd w/Data Compression … 0
Packets Txd Uncomp, were smaller . 0
Packets Txd Bad … 0

Packets Rxd OK … 15448
Packets Rxd OK w/Hdr Compression 0
Packets Rxd Bad w/Hdr Compression 0
Packets Rxd w/Data Compression … 0
Total Rx Errors … 0

Total Queue Packets Bad … 0

write_buf_empty … 1
tx_in_prog … 0


After rcp stops (NFS problem):

Total Number Of Net Driver Slots: 2

Driver Slot 0: Driver Pid 36 Logical Net 2 Network Card: Ethernet/3Com509

Ethernet Physical Node ID … 0x0020AF 71D134
I/O Port Range … 0x240 → 0x24F
Hardware Interrupt … 5

Total Packets Txd OK … 1536208
Tx Pkts Deferred … 3825964
Tx Pkts, One Collision … 581088
Tx Pkts, Multiple Collisions … 764500
Tx Pkts, Late Collisions [Bad] … 0
Carrier Sense Lost on Tx … 21
SQE Missing on Tx … 0
Total Bytes Txd OK … 92736448

Total Packets Rxd OK … 3622081
Pkts Rxd With Dribble Bits … 0
Pkts Rxd With Framing Errors … 0
Pkts Rxd With CRC Errors… 0
Runt Pkts Rxd … 0
Giant Pkts Rxd … 0
Rx FIFO Overrun … 0
Total Bytes Rxd OK … 553143035


Driver Slot 1: Driver Pid 37 Logical Net 1 Network Card: Ethernet/Net.fd

Ethernet Physical Node ID … 0x000000 000001

Packets Txd OK … 1931
Packets Txd w/Hdr Compression … 0
Packets Txd w/Data Compression … 0
Packets Txd Uncomp, were smaller . 0
Packets Txd Bad … 0

Packets Rxd OK … 0
Packets Rxd OK w/Hdr Compression 0
Packets Rxd Bad w/Hdr Compression 0
Packets Rxd w/Data Compression … 0
Total Rx Errors … 0

Total Queue Packets Bad … 4

write_buf_empty … 1
tx_in_prog … 0

Any suggestions? We’re stuck with this board. The system is working fine
with an old CMS board (driver Net.ether8003), but the board is obsolete.


“Hugh Brown” <hsbrown@qnx.com> wrote in message
news:Voyager.020611125832.1034B@node90.ott.qnx.com

What is the version of the driver that you are running (sin ver) ? This
driver hasn’t changed in over 3 years! What is the output from netinfo and
netinfo -l when the network dies?

Previously, Danny Gera wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
We are using 3COM 3C509B network card with Net.ether509 driver on QNX
4.24.
We have occational inconsistent network failures. Sometimes the whole
network connection is lost - no process crashed, and activities continue
as
usual, but no network connection is possible, until we restart the QNX.
We have experienced also other failure during file transfer from another
computer (Sun). In that case non-NFS connections are possible.

We don’t have these problems with other cards we use. Also, the same
3COM
card is used (with Windows) in another product with no problems.

The initialization is with the command:
Net.ether509 -i 5 -v -l 2 &

Does anyone know about problems with this board/driver, or how to set it
correctly?
\

Sent latest version of driver via e-mail.

Previously, Danny Gera wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:

The version of the Net.ether509 driver is 4.24A frpm Jul 04 1997. Is there a
newer driver? Where can I get it?

netinfo output (the other network - Net.fd - is using serial port):

After network dies:
Total Number Of Net Driver Slots: 2

Driver Slot 0: Driver Pid 36 Logical Net 2 Network Card: Ethernet/3Com509

Ethernet Physical Node ID … 0x00104B 961917
I/O Port Range … 0x240 → 0x24F
Hardware Interrupt … 5

Total Packets Txd OK … 22427
Tx Pkts Deferred … 2536
Tx Pkts, One Collision … 192
Tx Pkts, Multiple Collisions … 314
Tx Pkts, Late Collisions [Bad] … 0
Carrier Sense Lost on Tx … 0
SQE Missing on Tx … 0
Total Bytes Txd OK … 2214474

Total Packets Rxd OK … 208295
Pkts Rxd With Dribble Bits … 0
Pkts Rxd With Framing Errors … 0
Pkts Rxd With CRC Errors… 0
Runt Pkts Rxd … 0
Giant Pkts Rxd … 0
Rx FIFO Overrun … 0
Total Bytes Rxd OK … 16502667


Driver Slot 1: Driver Pid 37 Logical Net 1 Network Card: Ethernet/Net.fd

Ethernet Physical Node ID … 0x000000 000001

Packets Txd OK … 15974
Packets Txd w/Hdr Compression … 0
Packets Txd w/Data Compression … 0
Packets Txd Uncomp, were smaller . 0
Packets Txd Bad … 0

Packets Rxd OK … 15448
Packets Rxd OK w/Hdr Compression 0
Packets Rxd Bad w/Hdr Compression 0
Packets Rxd w/Data Compression … 0
Total Rx Errors … 0

Total Queue Packets Bad … 0

write_buf_empty … 1
tx_in_prog … 0


After rcp stops (NFS problem):

Total Number Of Net Driver Slots: 2

Driver Slot 0: Driver Pid 36 Logical Net 2 Network Card: Ethernet/3Com509

Ethernet Physical Node ID … 0x0020AF 71D134
I/O Port Range … 0x240 → 0x24F
Hardware Interrupt … 5

Total Packets Txd OK … 1536208
Tx Pkts Deferred … 3825964
Tx Pkts, One Collision … 581088
Tx Pkts, Multiple Collisions … 764500
Tx Pkts, Late Collisions [Bad] … 0
Carrier Sense Lost on Tx … 21
SQE Missing on Tx … 0
Total Bytes Txd OK … 92736448

Total Packets Rxd OK … 3622081
Pkts Rxd With Dribble Bits … 0
Pkts Rxd With Framing Errors … 0
Pkts Rxd With CRC Errors… 0
Runt Pkts Rxd … 0
Giant Pkts Rxd … 0
Rx FIFO Overrun … 0
Total Bytes Rxd OK … 553143035


Driver Slot 1: Driver Pid 37 Logical Net 1 Network Card: Ethernet/Net.fd

Ethernet Physical Node ID … 0x000000 000001

Packets Txd OK … 1931
Packets Txd w/Hdr Compression … 0
Packets Txd w/Data Compression … 0
Packets Txd Uncomp, were smaller . 0
Packets Txd Bad … 0

Packets Rxd OK … 0
Packets Rxd OK w/Hdr Compression 0
Packets Rxd Bad w/Hdr Compression 0
Packets Rxd w/Data Compression … 0
Total Rx Errors … 0

Total Queue Packets Bad … 4

write_buf_empty … 1
tx_in_prog … 0

Any suggestions? We’re stuck with this board. The system is working fine
with an old CMS board (driver Net.ether8003), but the board is obsolete.


“Hugh Brown” <> hsbrown@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:> Voyager.020611125832.1034B@node90.ott.qnx.com> …
What is the version of the driver that you are running (sin ver) ? This
driver hasn’t changed in over 3 years! What is the output from netinfo and
netinfo -l when the network dies?

Previously, Danny Gera wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
We are using 3COM 3C509B network card with Net.ether509 driver on QNX
4.24.
We have occational inconsistent network failures. Sometimes the whole
network connection is lost - no process crashed, and activities continue
as
usual, but no network connection is possible, until we restart the QNX.
We have experienced also other failure during file transfer from another
computer (Sun). In that case non-NFS connections are possible.

We don’t have these problems with other cards we use. Also, the same
3COM
card is used (with Windows) in another product with no problems.

The initialization is with the command:
Net.ether509 -i 5 -v -l 2 &

Does anyone know about problems with this board/driver, or how to set it
correctly?



\

Hugh Brown wrote:

Sent latest version of driver via e-mail.

Is this the same driver which is included in 4.25E or you have something
newer ?

Regards,
Greg Wrobel

wrobel@no-spam.zdania.com.pl Experimental Department of Scientific
phone: (+48 12) 617-2883 Equipment and Automation
fax: (+48 12) 634-2205 30-059 Krakow, al.Mickiewicza 30, Poland

Previously, Grzegorz Wrobel wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:

Hugh Brown wrote:

Sent latest version of driver via e-mail.


Is this the same driver which is included in 4.25E or you have something
newer ?

There is a later version which has a few modifications for newer chipsets.

Regards,
Greg Wrobel

wrobel@no-spam.zdania.com.pl > Experimental Department of Scientific
phone: (+48 12) 617-2883 Equipment and Automation
fax: (+48 12) 634-2205 30-059 Krakow, al.Mickiewicza 30, Poland

Hugh Brown wrote:

Previously, Grzegorz Wrobel wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
Is this the same driver which is included in 4.25E or you have something
newer ?

There is a later version which has a few modifications for newer chipsets.

So I have two questions:
First one is simple: can I have this driver also ?
Second one is more general: what is the status of future updates for QNX 4.2x?
Do you have any plans to release “full” update (which will include such
drivers as this one) or maybe there are any plans to post somewhere single
utilities as they are released?

Regards,
Grzegorz Wrobel

wrobel@zdania.com.pl Experimental Department of Scientific
phone: (+48 12) 617-2883 Equipment and Automation
fax: (+48 12) 634-2205 30-059 Krakow, al.Mickiewicza 30, Poland

I have sent the driver via e-mail.

Previously, Grzegorz Wrobel wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:

Hugh Brown wrote:
Previously, Grzegorz Wrobel wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
Is this the same driver which is included in 4.25E or you have something
newer ?

There is a later version which has a few modifications for newer chipsets.

So I have two questions:
First one is simple: can I have this driver also ?
Second one is more general: what is the status of future updates for QNX 4.2x?
Do you have any plans to release “full” update (which will include such
drivers as this one) or maybe there are any plans to post somewhere single
utilities as they are released?

There is a final update to QNX 4.25 in the pipeline, which will include all
the updated drivers. Don’t ask me when this will happen! Any future updates/
fixes will most probably be posted on developers corner.

Regards,
Grzegorz Wrobel

wrobel@zdania.com.pl > Experimental Department of Scientific
phone: (+48 12) 617-2883 Equipment and Automation
fax: (+48 12) 634-2205 30-059 Krakow, al.Mickiewicza 30, Poland

Previously, Hugh Brown wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:

I have sent the driver via e-mail.

Tried to send driver via e-mail, but received an error message “host unknown”.

Previously, Grzegorz Wrobel wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
Hugh Brown wrote:
Previously, Grzegorz Wrobel wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
Is this the same driver which is included in 4.25E or you have something
newer ?

There is a later version which has a few modifications for newer chipsets.

So I have two questions:
First one is simple: can I have this driver also ?
Second one is more general: what is the status of future updates for QNX 4.2x?
Do you have any plans to release “full” update (which will include such
drivers as this one) or maybe there are any plans to post somewhere single
utilities as they are released?


There is a final update to QNX 4.25 in the pipeline, which will include all
the updated drivers. Don’t ask me when this will happen! Any future updates/
fixes will most probably be posted on developers corner.

Regards,
Grzegorz Wrobel

wrobel@zdania.com.pl > Experimental Department of Scientific
phone: (+48 12) 617-2883 Equipment and Automation
fax: (+48 12) 634-2205 30-059 Krakow, al.Mickiewicza 30, Poland

Hugh Brown wrote:

Previously, Hugh Brown wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
I have sent the driver via e-mail.

Tried to send driver via e-mail, but received an error message “host unknown”.

Yup. There were “no-spam” section in reply address. Could you try once more
(I’ve cut “no-spam” from my address).

TIA,
Grzegorz Wrobel

wrobel@zdania.com.pl Experimental Department of Scientific
phone: (+48 12) 617-2883 Equipment and Automation
fax: (+48 12) 634-2205 30-059 Krakow, al.Mickiewicza 30, Poland