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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Sébastien Judenherc" <sebastien.judenherc@agecodagis.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: skge and sky2 stop working after a few minutes.
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:17:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070816091713.66c1d147@oldman> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20070815T224114-635@post.gmane.org>

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:20:37 +0000 (UTC)
Sébastien Judenherc  <sebastien.judenherc@agecodagis.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I can see some very strange problem with sky2 and skge interfaces with 2.6.22,
> and also 2.6.23-rc2/3.
> After 8-9 minutes, the interfaces stop working. ethtool reports that the link is
> down and the only way to make the interfaces usable again is
> removing/reinserting the module or running ethtool -r.
> This occurs for both sky2 and skge for two PCs connected to a gigabit switch.
> The other PCs on the same switch continue to work fine (most are 100Mbit/s). It
> also occurs on a third PC with skge, directly connected to a 100Mbit/s interface
> over a cross over cable. I didn't notice the problem with 2.6.19.
> 

Looks like some noise sensitivity in the PHY. Could you try the vendor sk98lin
driver, although all drivers use the same phy settings.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-08-16 13:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-15 21:20 skge and sky2 stop working after a few minutes Sébastien Judenherc
2007-08-16 13:17 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]

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