From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765427AbXHWSab (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:30:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763614AbXHWSaV (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:30:21 -0400 Received: from mailfe03.tele2.dk ([212.247.154.67]:34168 "EHLO swip.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759388AbXHWSaV (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:30:21 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 3601 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:30:20 EDT X-Cloudmark-Score: 0.000000 [] Subject: Re: Forcedeth: Nvidia NIC goes up and down From: Anders Rune Jensen To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: "jos.huisken" In-Reply-To: <181B3AA5E931BA4AB8ED25976193DDC30137416B@CPEXBE-VOIP03.bbp.local> References: <181B3AA5E931BA4AB8ED25976193DDC30137416B@CPEXBE-VOIP03.bbp.local> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:40:21 +0200 Message-Id: <1187919621.8533.3.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 22:43 +0200, jos.huisken@kpnplanet.nl wrote: > Hi, > > > I have a similar issue. The network drops away randomly for short periods (several to ten(s) seconds). > Strange enough nothing is reported is syslog, and indeed from the machine itself pinging works perfectly to another machine. > From that other machine however the connections looks dead in those periods... > > I'm running kernel 2.6.18.8-0.5-default on a SUSE 10.2 machine with a ASUS M2NPV-VM board. > Have tried both the default "0.59" and "0.62-Driver Package V1.23" version of forcedeth > Tried 2 BIOSes: 0901 and 1001. > > Also have tried several kernel options independently: noapic, pci=routeirq, acpi=off, pci=nomsi > All did not help. > > > Any suggestions? I got it working by connecting the network card my old 100mbit hub. It seems that the problem is only when it runs a 1gbit. So my setup is now 1gbit switch <> computers, 1mbit hub <> machine with broken netcard. This is good enough for now, since I don't really transfer that much data to and from the machine, but of course I would like to have 1gbit working for when I actually do need it ;-) > BTW I'm not subscribed, please CC me personally. > > > Thanks in advance, > -- Jos -- Anders Rune Jensen http://people.iola.dk/anders/