3 com network card duplex mismatch on ubuntu server 8.04

[J]

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 14:30, James Mutuku <listmutuku at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am getting the error below. the server has been running for 3 years
> but the error started showing up recently.
>
> 10:24:34 ETH01: Transmit error, Tx status register 82.
> 10:24:34 Probably a duplex mismatch. See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
> 10:24:34 Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 622631(7) current 622631(7)
> 10:24:34 Transmit list 00000000 vs. f571b660.
> 10:24:34 0: @f571b200 length 80000036 status 00010036
> 10:24:34 1: @f571b2a0 length 80000036 status 00010036
> 10:24:34 2: @f571b340 length 80000036 status 00010036
> 10:24:34 3: @f571b3e0 length 80000036 status 00010036
> 10:24:34 4: @f571b480 length 80000192 status 00010192
> 10:24:34 5: @f571b520 length 8000003e status 0001003e
> 10:24:34 6: @f571b5c0 length 800005ea status 800105ea
> 10:24:34 7: @f571b660 length 80000042 status 00010042
> 10:24:34 8: @f571b700 length 80000042 status 00010042
> 10:24:34 9: @f571b7a0 length 80000042 status 00010042
> 10:24:34 10: @f571b840 length 80000042 status 00010042
> 10:24:34 11: @f571b8e0 length 80000042 status 00010042
> 10:24:34 12: @f571b980 length 80000042 status 00010042
> 10:24:34 13: @f571ba20 length 80000042 status 00010042
> 10:24:34 14: @f571bac0 length 8000003a status 0001003a
> 10:24:34 15: @f571bb60 length 80000042 status 00010042

have you tried different cables, different patch panel and switch ports?

You say it's been running fine for 3 years then all of a sudden
this... what's changed?

My first inclination is hardware failure... but have you recently
updated the kernel?  Do older kernels still show this?