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From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: tg3 timeouts with 2.6.17-rc6
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:42:41 -0700
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On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 23:20 +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> writes:
> 
> >
> > Did this use to work with an older kernel or older tg3 driver? If
> > yes, what version?
> 
> Works fine with 2.6.16 and earlier.
> 
> > Please also provide the full tg3 probing output during modprobe and
> > ifconfig up. Thanks.
> 
Looking at the patch history since 2.6.16, the only patch that could
have an impact is the one that enables TSO by default.

Please try turning TSO off to see if it makes a difference:

ethtool -K eth0 tso off