Re: sky2 hangs on me again: This time 200 kb/s IPv4 traffic, not easily reproducable

[Matthias Hentges <oe@hentges.net>]

Am Samstag, den 02.09.2006, 19:11 -0400 schrieb shogunx:
> On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Matthias Hentges wrote:

> > Well, it just crapped out on me again :(
> >
> > Sep  2 23:36:13 localhost kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth2: transmit timed
> > out
> > Sep  2 23:36:13 localhost kernel: sky2 hardware hung? flushing
> >
> > Only a rmmod / modprobe cycle helps at this point.
> 
> Really?  What is the error condition causing it?  On my friends lap, which
> has an integrated sky2, his drops out with a full sustained TX...
> uploading to another box for example, at about 4-8MB of transfer.  The
> fix in his case is ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0.  I have
> yet to see the error occur at all on my ExpressCard device, either with
> 2.6.18-rc5 or 2.6.17.5.  I built the rc5 as a preemptive measure, but I
> cannot get it to fail under any conditions.
> 

I have yet to find a reproduceable way to trigger the bug but I'll try a
few things tomorrow.
Currently it appears to be completely ranom. I've loaded the driver w/
debug=10, maybe it'll give some clues.
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Matthias 'CoreDump' Hentges 

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