On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 11:43 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 20:16 +0200, Patrick wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 11:03 -0500, Anthony Messina wrote: > > > Patrick wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I recently updated to kernel 2.6.17-1.2157_FC5 on my FC5 laptop. Not > > > > sure if it's related but now networking stops working intermittently. > > > > The driver used is tg3 for a Broadcom BCM5789 nic. In /var/log/messages > > > > I see: > > > > > > > > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out > > > > tg3: eth0: transmit timed out, resetting > > > > tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=2c00 enable_bit=2 > > > > tg3: eth0: Link is down. > > > > tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex. > > > > tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX. > > > > > > > > Doing a $sudo /sbin/service network restart immediately solves the > > > > problem. I only see this happen with the download of the FC5 Unity DVD > > > > torrent. Not with small fish like surfing or getting my mail from an > > > > imap server on the LAN. Has anyone seen something similar? Any > > > > suggestions how I can pinpoint/fix this? > > > > > > > > > > i had/have what sounds to be exactly the same problem. see my post from > > > april: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-April/msg04485.html > > > > > > the problem seems to come and go. i never found a solution and no one > > > else seemed to be able to offer any advice at the time. > > > > Yikes that does not sound very encouraging. Are you aware of an FC5 > > kernel where this problem does not happen (assuming it's related to the > > tg3 module)? > > I've never liked the tg3 module...it's always had issues with speed > negotiation and the like. One way around is to turn off negotiation on > the switch/router and set it to fixed (along with the other appropriate > parameters) and do the same for the machine itself. > > If you're using the tg3 driver for a Broadcom chipset, try to use the > actual Broadcom driver (from their website). It doesn't have these > issues. Thanks for the info Rick. I downloaded the latest Broadcom tg3 driver (version 3.58b) and README.TXT says that this driver is already part of the recent 2.6 kernels: "The latest driver is in the latest 2.6 Linux kernel. It can also be downloaded from http://www.broadcom.com as a source package, but is generally not necessary to do so if you are using the latest 2.6 upstream kernel from http://www.kernel.org or one of the latest vendor kernels from Red Hat, SuSE, or others." The info from # modinfo tg3 seems to agree as it says that the version of the tg3 module in 2.6.17-1.2157_FC5 is 3.59. Is there perhaps a more recent beta driver you are referring to or are you still saying it is a good idea to try this driver? Thanks, Patrick
