On Wed, 13 May 2009 15:06:41 -0700 "Brandeburg, Jesse" <[email protected]> wrote:
> zsolt foldvari wrote: > > Hi! > > > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Brandeburg, Jesse > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Your full dmesg from boot would have been more useful, but I think > >> you have the issue of dma with these 32 bit controllers failing when > >> you have lots of ram. > > > > dmesg_1.txt is the full output from boot. > > > >> do you have 4GB or greater of ram? > > > > I have only 512K. > > > >> your hardware is failing to send *all* packets, as in it never > >> succeeds in sending any. this could be an interrupt problem (so > >> please check /proc/interrupts and make sure you get an interrupt for > >> your eth0 interface every two seconds) or a dma issue, or maybe even > >> a hardware failure. > > > > There are many devices attached to the same interrupt (IRQ11). Any way > > I can see interrupts coming only from eth0? > > > > Btw., I have issues with my Intel PRO Wireless too for a long time, > > but I thought it was related to some kernel upgrade. When the module > > is enabled I often get message "IRQ11 Disabled" and kernel locks up. > > Perhaps it means interrupt problems. The e1000 and ipw2100 problems > > didn't start at the same time! > > > >> I guess the other option could be that it doesn't like the IPv6 > >> packets for some reason. > > > > ipv6 kernel module is not loaded. > > > >> we have a patch at sourceforge in the patches section, that patches > >> in an e1000_dump function. This might be useful to see the output > >> from. When you get a tx hang it will dump a ton of data into dmesg > >> and if you could send us that it would be great. > > > > Please find attached the output from dmesg after the tx hang. I've > > included syslog as well since the dmesg buffer seems to be too small. > > > > I did upgrade the BIOS to the latest available version beforehand. > > > > Zsolt > > This issue appears to have gone silent, were you able to resolve it? Kind of. I decided to buy a new notebook ;-) I also installed Solaris 10 on the problematic T41, and though I haven't used the network a lot yet, I haven't had any problem with the Ethernet i/f so far. Cheers, Zsolt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel
