r8169 in 2.6.7: transfer stops after few seconds

r8169 in 2.6.7: transfer stops after few seconds

[Vladimir B. Savkin]

Hello!

My realtek-8169 based NIC doesn't work with 2.6.
Kernel versions tried: 2.6.7, 2.6.7-mm7.
Works OK with 2.4.26.

Symptoms: after few dozen packets, transfer stops,
both with TCP and with flood ping.
I can revive NIC by doing ifdown and ifup again.

The card is NetInfo NA-G32:

0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 64 (8000ns min, 16000ns max), Cache Line Size: 0x08 (32 bytes)
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
        Region 0: I/O ports at c800 [size=256]
        Region 1: Memory at efffbf00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Expansion ROM at effd0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [60] Vital Product Data

I'm trying to use this NIC with AMD750-based motherboard (Gigabyte 7IXE4).

Is there any other info I can supply you with to debug this problem?

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:wq
                                        With best regards, 
                                           Vladimir Savkin. 

Re: r8169 in 2.6.7: transfer stops after few seconds

[Francois Romieu]

Vladimir B. Savkin <master@sectorb.msk.ru> :
> My realtek-8169 based NIC doesn't work with 2.6.
> Kernel versions tried: 2.6.7, 2.6.7-mm7.
> Works OK with 2.4.26.
[...]
> Is there any other info I can supply you with to debug this problem?

- dmesg once the card is up/stopped (please provide complete dmesg from
  boot as it usually gets truncated and misses the compiler info)
- ifconfig output once the card is stopped
- lspci -vx

Did you try 2.6.6 or previous kernel in the 2.6.x serie ?

Please redirect traffic to netdev@oss.sgi.com.

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Ueimor