network freeze with nforce-A939 integrated rhine card

[David Lang]

I haven't had time to go back and find where is started (my prior kernel 
was 2.6.15-rc7), but with 2.6.17-rc1/2/3/4 I've been running into a 
problem where when transfering large amounts of data (trying to ftp a TB 
or so of data off of the box to my new server it will run for a while (as 
little as 1G, as much as 45G) and then the network card will shut down.

when I say shut down I mean that it looses link and requires powering down 
the box (hard power down, not just power off from the front panel), 
disabling the network card in the BIOS, booting (as far as lilo is 
enough), powering down again, enabling the card and booting again.
there is no indication of trouble before the halt (it's transfering at 
full speed), the only think in the log is
May 11 22:23:57 david kernel: eth0: link down
May 11 22:24:00 david kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xCDE1
May 11 22:24:22 david kernel: eth0: link down

if I don't do the disable/enable in the bios cycle and just power cycle 
the system the card does not initialize properly (ethtool reports 
autonegotiation disabled, 10Mb. will generate an 'unsupported' error if I 
try to enable the card)

the system is x86_64 64 bit kernel with 32 bit userspace

lspci report
dlang@david:~$ /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0204
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 1204
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 2204
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3204
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 4204
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 7204
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800 South]
00:08.0 RAID bus controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT374 (rev 07)
00:08.1 RAID bus controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT374 (rev 07)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Olicom OC-2326 (rev 01)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [K8T800 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (rev 01)

config is attached

David Lang

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