Re: PROBLEM: Network sky2 Module, kernel version 2.6.23-rc7

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

ben soo wrote:
> i spoke too soon.  The Gbit interface still dies.  Lasted around 19hrs. 
> or so.  i can't tell if there are hardware issues: yesterday a Gbit NIC 
> on the firewall died.  Different chip (Realtek), different driver, 
> different machine, same segment.  Segment is a mix of 100Mbit and 1Gbit 
> machines.
> 
> Symptoms of the failure are it just stops functioning with no error 
> messages.  ifconfig says there are packets being TX'd and none being 
> RX'd.  Interface can't be brought up again.
> 

If you search through my exchanges with Adrian Bunk WRT sk98lin removal, 
I mentioned a very similar problem. When I wrote that I had some notes 
in front of me, which are now archived and not quickly available. 
unloading and reloading the modules didn't fix it, IIRC.

I will be doing an update on the machine in question by the end of the 
year, and at that time I will try shy2 again, since I'll be able to do 
better testing.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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