Re: sky2 hangs on me again: This time 200 kb/s IPv4 traffic, noteasily reproducable

From: Matthias Hentges
Date: Sat Sep 02 2006 - 19:23:34 EST


Am Samstag, den 02.09.2006, 19:11 -0400 schrieb shogunx:
> On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Matthias Hentges wrote:

> > Well, it just crapped out on me again :(
> >
> > Sep 2 23:36:13 localhost kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth2: transmit timed
> > out
> > Sep 2 23:36:13 localhost kernel: sky2 hardware hung? flushing
> >
> > Only a rmmod / modprobe cycle helps at this point.
>
> Really? What is the error condition causing it? On my friends lap, which
> has an integrated sky2, his drops out with a full sustained TX...
> uploading to another box for example, at about 4-8MB of transfer. The
> fix in his case is ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0. I have
> yet to see the error occur at all on my ExpressCard device, either with
> 2.6.18-rc5 or 2.6.17.5. I built the rc5 as a preemptive measure, but I
> cannot get it to fail under any conditions.
>

I have yet to find a reproduceable way to trigger the bug but I'll try a
few things tomorrow.
Currently it appears to be completely ranom. I've loaded the driver w/
debug=10, maybe it'll give some clues.
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