How to find a reason for PCI Bus error a290.

A friend of mine installed a Linux box for me. Yesterday, it stopped
answer to ping and in log I found

Nov 10 17:40:59 myhope kernel: eth0: PCI Bus error a290.
Nov 10 17:41:03 myhope kernel: eth0: PCI Bus error 8290.
Nov 10 17:42:57 myhope kernel: eth0: PCI Bus error a290.
Nov 10 17:42:59 myhope last message repeated 2 times
Nov 10 17:43:00 myhope kernel: eth0: PCI Bus error 8290.
Nov 10 18:36:38 myhope kernel: eth0: PCI Bus error a290.
Nov 10 18:36:38 myhope kernel: eth0: PCI Bus error 8290.
Nov 10 18:36:39 myhope kernel: eth0: PCI Bus error a290.
Nov 10 18:36:40 myhope kernel: eth0: PCI Bus error a290.
Nov 10 18:36:41 myhope kernel: eth0: PCI Bus error 8290.
Nov 10 18:36:52 myhope kernel: eth0: PCI Bus error a290.

Ii it a problem of a network card or mainboard? Or anything else?The
friend told me that it could be a problem of power supply too.

(This server( I use it as a webserver), was up for about 140 days and
then was a first down time and 10 days later this second.)
Any idea would be appreciated
Thank you
L.

In comp.os.linux.networking Pythoni <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> A friend of mine installed a Linux box for me. Yesterday, it stopped
> answer to ping and in log I found

> Nov 10 17:40:59 myhope kernel: eth0: PCI Bus error a290.
[..]

What do the following commands output from some xterm/kvt or
alike:

uname -r
/sbin/lspci | grep Eth

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Michael Heiming wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.networking Pythoni <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> > A friend of mine installed a Linux box for me. Yesterday, it stopped
> > answer to ping and in log I found
>
> > Nov 10 17:40:59 myhope kernel: eth0: PCI Bus error a290.
> [..]
>
> What do the following commands output from some xterm/kvt or
> alike:
>
> uname -r
> /sbin/lspci | grep Eth
>
Michael,
Thank you for your reply
When I typed
/sbin/lspci | grep Eth

I received
01:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)


What else shall I try?
Thank you
L.

In comp.os.linux.networking Pythoni <(E-Mail Removed)>:

> Michael Heiming wrote:
>> In comp.os.linux.networking Pythoni <(E-Mail Removed)>:
>> > A friend of mine installed a Linux box for me. Yesterday, it stopped
>> > answer to ping and in log I found

>> > Nov 10 17:40:59 myhope kernel: eth0: PCI Bus error a290.
>> [..]

>> What do the following commands output from some xterm/kvt or
>> alike:

>> uname -r
>> /sbin/lspci | grep Eth

> Michael, Thank you for your reply When I typed

> /sbin/lspci | grep Eth

> 01:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

Good, you didn't reveal you kernel version? Though this nic is
supported since long time. It is a cheapo card, a good choice for
some desktop. I have seen quite a few of these cards failing, I'd
try another spare one and perhaps use another PCI slot and see if
this works better.

Good luck

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Michael Heiming wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.networking Pythoni <(E-Mail Removed)>:
>
> > Michael Heiming wrote:
> >> In comp.os.linux.networking Pythoni <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> >> > A friend of mine installed a Linux box for me. Yesterday, it stopped
> >> > answer to ping and in log I found
>
> >> > Nov 10 17:40:59 myhope kernel: eth0: PCI Bus error a290.
> >> [..]
>
> >> What do the following commands output from some xterm/kvt or
> >> alike:
>
> >> uname -r
> >> /sbin/lspci | grep Eth
>
> > Michael, Thank you for your reply When I typed
>
> > /sbin/lspci | grep Eth
>
> > 01:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> > RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
>
> Good, you didn't reveal you kernel version? Though this nic is
> supported since long time. It is a cheapo card, a good choice for
> some desktop. I have seen quite a few of these cards failing, I'd
> try another spare one and perhaps use another PCI slot and see if
> this works better.
Michael,
Thank you for your reply.
So, do you think it is a problem of network card?

La.

Pythoni wrote:
> A friend of mine installed a Linux box for me. Yesterday, it stopped
> answer to ping and in log I found
>
> Nov 10 17:40:59 myhope kernel: eth0: PCI Bus error a290.

The software is reading an interrupt status register on the
card and seeing that the chip reported, in this internal
register, that a PCI bus error occurred. If you want to dig
into the things that could cause the chip to think so, you'll
have to look at the chip specs. I think Realtech makes them
downloadable.

Regards,
Steve