Re: strange bug with realtek 8169 card

Re: strange bug with realtek 8169 card

[Alexandre]

Francois Romieu wrote:
  >>Or any idea why the problem occurs and how to correct this (if it is
>>possbile)?
> 
> 
> Upgrade the compiler if you use gcc 2.95.x.
I was using it... and tried it today with gcc 3.0, and the problem 
always occurs !

Any other idea ?

thanks again
(ou devrais-je dire : merci encore)

Alexandre

Re: strange bug with realtek 8169 card

[Francois Romieu]

Alexandre <a.hocquel_NOSPAM_@oreka.com> :
[...]
> Any other idea ?

Please try:
http://www.fr.zoreil.com/~francois/misc/20050202-2.4.29-r8169.c-test.patch

Compile with gcc-3.x and send/publish _complete_ dmesg + lspci -vx +
cat /proc/interrupts + ifconfig if it still hangs.

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Re: strange bug with realtek 8169 card

[Felipe W Damasio]

Francois Romieu wrote:
> Please try:
> http://www.fr.zoreil.com/~francois/misc/20050202-2.4.29-r8169.c-test.patch

	404 Not Found

Felipe Damasio

Re: strange bug with realtek 8169 card

[Paulo Marques]

Felipe W Damasio wrote:
> 
> Francois Romieu wrote:
> 
>> Please try:
>> http://www.fr.zoreil.com/~francois/misc/20050202-2.4.29-r8169.c-test.patch 
> 
>     404 Not Found

Try:

http://www.fr.zoreil.com/people/francois/misc/20050202-2.4.29-r8169.c-test.patch

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Re: strange bug with realtek 8169 card

[shishir verma]

by any chance is the watchdog enabled for the card...because i had a
similar problem with a broadcom gigabit card....i commented the
watchdog code and made the module again...
it worked like a charm for me after that...
-shishir


On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:53:24 +0000, Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> wrote:
> Felipe W Damasio wrote:
> >
> > Francois Romieu wrote:
> >
> >> Please try:
> >> http://www.fr.zoreil.com/~francois/misc/20050202-2.4.29-r8169.c-test.patch
> >
> >     404 Not Found
> 
> Try:
> 
> http://www.fr.zoreil.com/people/francois/misc/20050202-2.4.29-r8169.c-test.patch
> 
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Re: strange bug with realtek 8169 card

[Francois Romieu]

shishir verma <shishir.lkml@gmail.com> :
> by any chance is the watchdog enabled for the card...because i had a
> similar problem with a broadcom gigabit card....i commented the
> watchdog code and made the module again...
> it worked like a charm for me after that...

The original user wrote:
[...]
> > If I look in every log file I can (dmesg, kernel.log, syslog, debug)
> > there is no message...

-> the watchdog would have caused something to appear.

I'd rather have a bit more information before resorting to super-voodoo.

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Re: strange bug with realtek 8169 card

[Alexandre]

Francois Romieu wrote:
> shishir verma <shishir.lkml@gmail.com> :
> 
>>by any chance is the watchdog enabled for the card...because i had a
>>similar problem with a broadcom gigabit card....i commented the
>>watchdog code and made the module again...
>>it worked like a charm for me after that...
> 
> 
> The original user wrote:
> [...]
> 
>>>If I look in every log file I can (dmesg, kernel.log, syslog, debug)
>>>there is no message...
> 
> 
> -> the watchdog would have caused something to appear.
> 
> I'd rather have a bit more information before resorting to super-voodoo.
thanks again, unfortunately PCs with those cards are at work, and from 
today that's holidays until march 7th... :D
so I can't test last solution (patch) until this day...

Alex, who will try maybe tomorrow to go there if he has time

Re: strange bug with realtek 8169 card

[Francois Romieu]

Alexandre <a.hocquel_NOSPAM_@oreka.com> :
[...]
> thanks again, unfortunately PCs with those cards are at work, and from 
> today that's holidays until march 7th... :D

Excellent. Your testing will not impact the normal production.

I have done a minor update to sync with Jeff's latest -netdev
http://www.fr.zoreil.com/~romieu/misc/20050216-2.4.29-r8169.c-test.patch

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Ueimor

strange bug with realtek 8169 card

[Alexandre]

Hello,

I bought 2 Ovislink GE8169 because they're made with realtek 8169 chipset.
I make a new kernel with r8169 compiled as a module.
I can load r8169.o module without any error or warning. Cards negociate 
at 1000Mb/s, so everything looks ok.
I can ping both from each other.

and now is the strange behavior:
I try a ftp download, and if it's small file I can dowload without a 
problem... ONCE! Because if I "get" the same file (or another one) in 
the same ftp session (or other) it looks like freezing...
If I try to download "big" file (like ie: linux-2.4.29.tar.bz2), it freezes.
In fact after many try, I found that after each dowload (or begin of) I 
can't ping anymore the other pc... I have to down and up the cards (on 
both pc) to have it working again...

The same behavior occurs with scp. And doesn't occur with 10/100 Mb/s 
NIC inside the both same pc.
This problem occurs with 2.4.27, 2.4.28, 2.4.29 kernels... (didn't try 
with "lower" kernels).

If I look in every log file I can (dmesg, kernel.log, syslog, debug) 
there is no message...
Have any idea how to ask more r8169.o module to be more verbose?

Or any idea why the problem occurs and how to correct this (if it is 
possbile)?

thanks by advance,

Alexandre

Re: strange bug with realtek 8169 card

[Francois Romieu]

Alexandre <a.hocquel_NOSPAM_@oreka.com> :
[...]
> Or any idea why the problem occurs and how to correct this (if it is 
> possbile)?

Upgrade the compiler if you use gcc 2.95.x.

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