On 2/5/07, *Andrew Morton* <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:48:33 -0600 Robert Hancock <hancockr@xxxxxxx
<mailto:hancockr@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:13:09 -0600 Robert Hancock <
hancockr@xxxxxxx <mailto:hancockr@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >> Something's busted with forcedeth in 2.6.20-rc6-mm3 for me
relative to
> >> 2.6.20-rc6. There's no errors in dmesg, but it seems no
packets ever get
> >> received and so the machine can't get an IP address. I tried
reverting
> >> all the -mm changes to drivers/net/forcedeth.c, which didn't
help. The
> >> network controller shares an IRQ with the USB OHCI controller
which is
> >> receiving interrupts, so it doesn't seem like an interrupt routing
> >> problem, though I suppose something wierd could be happening
there.
> >>
> >> This is on an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe (CK804 chipset) on x86_64.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions on how to debug/what to try reverting to see
what's
> >> causing this?
> >
> > There are many forcedeth changes in git-netdev-all.patch. Can you
> > try reverting drivers/net/forcedeth.c back to the unpatched version
> > from 2.6.20-rc6?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>
> That's essentially what I did, it didn't appear to help. I assume
the
> problem must lie elsewhere..
>
doh, I missed that.
It's presumably not the driver and nobody else seems to be hitting
this, so
it must be something peculiar to your setup. But I don't know what it
might be, sorry.
Actually it has been reported by several other people here including myself but it seems to have been overlooked here ;)
See the messages with forcedeth in the subject line over the past few weeks.
I put 2.6.20-gentoo on my machine this weekend with debug printks enabled and right now I have yet to lose connectivity -- going on ~20 hours worth.
Previously I would lose connectivity within minutes of booting up. I had a script set up that detected the ping loss of a gateway and would restart both interfaces (dual onboard nics).
Tonight I will disable the debug printks and see if the system remains online. There was a big patch applied to forcedeth for 2.6.20, previously I was having these issues for several of the -19 series.
David