From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Kujau Subject: Re: tg3 stops working when NFS is involved Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:21:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20090608164038.GA8825@xw6200.broadcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: LKML , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" To: Matt Carlson Return-path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.188]:54507 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753307AbZFHRVP (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 13:21:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090608164038.GA8825@xw6200.broadcom.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Matt Carlson wrote: > This seems to be a common problem with the 5906 on some > notebooks. The word on the street is that turning sg off through > ethtool seems to avoid the problem. Well, I must've been on the wrong streets then, this was news to me... > While I dig deeper into this > problem, you could try that and see if it helps you. Yes, "ethtool -K eth0 sg off" does indeed help here too: I've already transmitted a few gigabytes of traffic (the problem occured after a few megabytes lastly) and all is still well. Thanks for your quick response! Christian. -- BOFH excuse #273: The cord jumped over and hit the power switch.