From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Nothdurft Subject: Re: 2.4.35-pre1: new e1000 driver breaks old hardware Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:53:00 +0200 Message-ID: <46C16D6C.1030704@linogate.de> References: <46723F39.1000808@linogate.de> <4672B5FD.7070304@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Kok, Auke" To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.linogate.de ([213.179.141.2]:1213 "EHLO mail.linogate.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754324AbXHNJZv (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:25:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4672B5FD.7070304@intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Kok, Auke wrote: > Wolfgang Nothdurft wrote: >> Hi, >> >> with the new e1000 driver version 7.3.20 the onboard gigabit nic 82547EI >> (8086:1019) doesn't work correctly. >> After transferring about 100 megabytes over a gigabit link the transfer >> stopped and I have to reinit the link either by doing a ifconfig down/up >> or unplugging the network cable. >> The RxIntDelay is set to 0 like described in the docu. Playing with this >> Parameter only increases the amount of traffic to be send and the error >> occurs later. > > have you tried (the default) 8000 ? Do you get the same problem when you > run 2.6.21 with 7.5.5.1 or 7.3.20 ? > >> This happens also with the 7.4.35 and 7.5.5 driver from the intel side. >> The driver 5.7.6 from kernel 2.4.33.3 and the 6.1.16 from intel works >> very well on this hardware. >> Also other gigabit nics we use didn't have this problem. >> Is this issue already known? > > this is the first time I have heard this issue. > >> Is there any solution yet? > > I'm not that good :) > > Can you file a bugreport on e1000.sf.net and attach the usual (ethtool > -e, dmesg, ifconfig -a, lspci -vv) debugging output and problem > description for us? I'll try to see if I can have our labs setup a repro > case, which might be hard given the adapter type, but we will do our best. > > Auke > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Any news about this issue? The bug report is http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1739537&group_id=42302&atid=447449 Kind Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Nothdurft Wolfgang.Nothdurft@linogate.de Linogate Internet Technologies fon: +49 (0)821 - 25 96 - 0