From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Subject: via-rhine driver stalls with: PHY status 786d, resetting... Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:30:12 -0700 Message-ID: <472CBE34.1040405@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.45.13]:40558 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755532AbXKCSaU (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Nov 2007 14:30:20 -0400 Received: from zps75.corp.google.com (zps75.corp.google.com [172.25.146.75]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id lA3IUFGR009851 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2007 11:30:15 -0700 Received: from smtp.corp.google.com (spacemonkey3.corp.google.com [192.168.120.116]) by zps75.corp.google.com with ESMTP id lA3IUEo6004906 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2007 11:30:14 -0700 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (c-67-170-233-68.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.170.233.68]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.corp.google.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lA3IUDQK017643 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2007 10:30:14 -0800 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Linux 2.6.23 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9300 Under any sort of traffic load (recursive scp from another box of a bunch of mp3s, for instance), I get continuous stalls. Recovers every time, but is dog slow. NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth2: transmit timed out eth2: Transmit timed out, status 0000, PHY status 786d, resetting... eth2: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xCDE1 driver is via-rhine. Google search indicates this has been a problem since at least 2.4.19 and 2002 ... can we not fix this somehow? I have an e1000 card in this box too, but that has similar issues ;-(