From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Krzysztof Halasa Subject: Re: e1000e: sporadic "hardware error"s with Intel 82563EB on Supermicro X7DB3 Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:29:22 +0200 Message-ID: References: <48EB7161.60004@siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bruce.w.allan@intel.com To: "Hillier\, Gernot" Return-path: Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:58824 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753231AbYJHK3Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 06:29:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48EB7161.60004@siemens.com> (Gernot Hillier's message of "Tue\, 07 Oct 2008 16\:25\:37 +0200") Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, "Hillier, Gernot" writes: > On at least two machines using the Supermicro X7DB3 board with Intel > 82563EB (a.k.a. PCI device 8086:1096), we see sporadic problems on modprobe > (about 1 time in some hundred tries): > > e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 0.3.3.3-k2 > e1000e: Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Intel Corporation. > e1000e 0000:06:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 > e1000e 0000:06:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 > 0000:06:00.0: 0000:06:00.0: Hardware Error What does "lspci -vv" say about it when the above happens? I spurious chip reset (hardware) could probably cause that. -- Krzysztof Halasa