Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 12877] New: tg3: eth0 transit timed out, resetting -> dead NIC

["Matt Carlson" <mcarlson@broadcom.com>]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:06:44AM -0700, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:58:42AM -0700, Matt Carlson wrote:
> 
> Hello Matt,
> 
> > Hi Bernhard.  I talked to Michael about this and we'd like you to try
> > two things.
> > 
> > 1) Can you disable iLo2 and see if you can still reproduce the problem?
> 
> That will take a few days, I'll ask the on-site guys to check whether we
> have an external IP-KVM available. 
> 
> Would switching the uplink connection to eth1 (and not use eth0 in
> Linux) give some more clue as well?

Sure, let's try that.  Maybe this is the better way to go anyways.  I just
learned that disabling iLo2 doesn't necessarily disable the management
firmware on the network device.

For this to be a meaningful test though, we need to verify that the
driver sign-on messages have a line that reads "ASF[0]" on eth1.  Can
you confirm?

> > 2) Can you apply the following patch to get more information on when
> >    MMIO gets disabled?
> 
> Applied, I'll send you the information as soon as it happens again
> (which seems to be happening rather often the last couple of days).

Thanks.