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

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