From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932231AbWGXRiM (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:38:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932235AbWGXRiL (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:38:11 -0400 Received: from mail.silverbirchstudios.com ([207.176.159.130]:39647 "EHLO mail") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932231AbWGXRiK (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:38:10 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:38:29 -0400 From: Todd Showalter To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Problems with sky2 driver. Message-ID: <20060724133829.49bf7979@akemi> Organization: Silverbirch Studios X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.3.0 (GTK+ 2.8.19; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I've been having trouble with the sky2 driver. It appears to work most of the time, but it will quite often wedge during transfers. The 2.6.17.* kernels actually seem worse than 2.6.16.19, but none of them work perfectly. What typically happens is that after working perfectly for a while, existing net connections hang, and subsequent net connections don't seem to start at all. firefox gets stuck with a bunch of half-loaded pages, for instance, and I've watched an scp of a large file to a colleague's machine stall and remain stalled. Once the machine is behaving this way, a reboot is the only way I have found of recovering it. We have two identical machines here that are both behaving this way, so I'm assuming it's not a hardware problem per se. The machines are Intel Pentium D 940 (3GHz) processors. They have ASUS P5LD2 motherboards, with builtin Marvell PCIe 88E8053 gigabit ethernet controllers. I'm not running any binary modules; it's an untainted kernel. I'm running a Gentoo system, but I'm using the vanilla-sources kernel (ie: a pure kernel.org release, not the Gentoo-specific patched version). What can I do to help solve this? Todd. -- Todd Showalter, Silverbirch Studios.