From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kok, Auke" Subject: Re: e1000 driver problems Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:40:08 -0800 Message-ID: <474C5678.3060609@intel.com> References: <20061017205316.25914.qmail@web83109.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <45354850.6050900@intel.com> <20071120143803.GA5638@ics.muni.cz> <474B5610.4030800@intel.com> <20071127150700.GB4365@ics.muni.cz> <474C4A74.90705@intel.com> <20071127173146.GG4365@ics.muni.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: NetDev To: Lukas Hejtmanek Return-path: Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:9334 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755706AbXK0RlC (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:41:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20071127173146.GG4365@ics.muni.cz> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org [moving this discussion to netdev, dropping lkml] Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:48:52AM -0800, Kok, Auke wrote: >>> unfortunately, the 7.6.9 driver cannot be compiled with 2.6.24-rc3-git2 >>> kernel due to compilation errors. >> but the in-kernel version of e1000 supports the ich8 lan device just fine >> and can be builtin. also this kernel has the first release of e1000e which >> supports the ich9 onboard lan device. > > I'm afraid, I'm missing the point as you have stated that in-kernel drivers > have problem with suspicious board hang... my mistake, sorry for that confusion. the fake hangs on 82562/6 devices occur on 10mbit link only. You can check in the code for a line that says: adapter->tx_timeout_factor = 8; change that number to 16 to cope with the problem on 10mbit link partners. However this won't fix the issue on 100mbit partners and we need to investigate that if that is the case. Auke