Re: tg3 in 2.6.12-rc6 and Cisco PIX SMTP fixup

[Alejandro Bonilla <abonilla@linuxwireless.org>]

Lars Roland wrote:

>On 6/17/05, Christian Kujau <evil@g-house.de> wrote:
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>>Lars Roland schrieb:
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>>>It does not seams to be limited to braodcom cards. 3com and Intel e100
>>>cards does the exact same stunt on kernels never than 2.6.8.1. Intel
>>>e1000 and realtek 8139 cards do however work.
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>>hm - tricky, i think. because no kernel oopses, nothing to look at in the
>>syslog (yes?),
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>Nothing anywhere, even tcpdump just seams to get cut off - I have not
>been debugging ethernet drivers for years, getting a little rusty at
>that, so nothing there yet.
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>>various nic drivers affected, others not...in cases like
>>these only Documentation/BUG-HUNTING comes to my mind: if 2.6.8.1 works,
>>and 2.6.12-rc6 does not, we'll need to find out the kernelversion which
>>introduced this behaviour.
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>That I can give you, kernel 2.6.8.1 works but 2.6.9 does not (at least
>not with tg3 and tulip cards).
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>Regards.
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>Lars Roland
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one question,

    Can I know what is the problem? I have 2 tg3 adapters, lots of 
e100's and some Cisco PIX and devices.

I can try to reproduce it and see if anyone has something to say about it.

Let me know,

.Alejandro