Re: Net: e1000 driver: TX Hang message

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If this bug is still present in 2.6.15 could you please create a report
(against 2.6.15) at bugzilla.kenrel.org?

Thanks.

"Gerrit Visser" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a DELL precision 670 that has an Intel Gigabit Ethernet onboard
> NIC (82545GM chipset). It receives packets but keeps on giving "Tx hang"
> messages and doesn't send any packets.
> 
> Both standard Redhat WS4 (kernel 2.6.9) and kernel 2.6.13.2 did the
> same.
> 
> To fix it, I've changed the following in the file e1000_hw.c:
> 
>     case E1000_DEV_ID_82545GM_COPPER:
>     case E1000_DEV_ID_82545GM_FIBER:
>     case E1000_DEV_ID_82545GM_SERDES:
>         hw->mac_type = e1000_82545_rev_3;
>         break;
> 
> to
> 
>     case E1000_DEV_ID_82545GM_COPPER:
>     case E1000_DEV_ID_82545GM_FIBER:
>     case E1000_DEV_ID_82545GM_SERDES:
>         hw->mac_type = e1000_82545;
>         break;
> 
> (ie. removed the "_rev_3")
> 
> I'm not certain whether it's necessary to change this for copper, fiber
> and serdes. Mine is a copper (pci id 1026).
> 
> This worked for the Linux e1000 driver from Intel's website, but exactly
> the same piece of code is in the 2.6.13.2 kernel's e1000 driver.
> 
> Best regards,
> Gerrit
> 
> 
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