Re: Very strange Marvell/Yukon Gigabit NIC networking problems

[Daniel Drake]

Forwarding on, please reply-to-all in future.

Steve Kieu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have "fixed" the problem in a very wierd way.Reading
> your post I thought maybe when removing the driver
> itself it set some bit incorrectly. Then I decided to
> do:
>
> Boot with init=/bin/bash  so bypass all other things.
> modprobe skge
>
> run ifconfig eth0 ip_num  up
>
>
> ping  a host
>
> then while pinging hit Ctrl+Alt+Del key to hot reboot
> the system.
>
> I still see the light at the hub lits. Now I boot to
> winXP and as I expected , it worked!
>
> No I boot 2.6.11 and it worked, so the problem resolve
> but I am tooooo scared to run 2613 now :-)
>
> Hope this information helps debuging the driver.
>
> Thanks.
>
> S.KIEU
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