On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Andrew Morton wrote: > (switched to email. Please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via the > bugzilla web interface). > > On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:45:38 GMT > bugzilla-dae...@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote: > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13568 > > > > Summary: Intel e1000 4-port NIC - unable to communicate, slowly > > blinking > > Product: Drivers > > Version: 2.5 > > Kernel Version: 2.6.30 > > Platform: All > > OS/Version: Linux > > Tree: Mainline > > Status: NEW > > Severity: high > > Priority: P1 > > Component: Network > > AssignedTo: drivers_netw...@kernel-bugs.osdl.org > > ReportedBy: tuhar...@misbb.sk > > Regression: No > > > > > > Hallo, > > > > I have here Tyan GT20 (B2865G20S4H) barebone server with onboard GbE NICs > > (Broadcom BCM5721 and Marvell 88E1111-CAA PHY). > > > > I have installed PCI-E Intel__ PRO/1000 PT Quad Port Server Adapter > > (EXPI9404PTBLK) to gain 6 ports altogether. This is the card: > > > > http://www.intel.com/products/server/adapters/pro1000pt-quadport/pro1000pt-quadport-overview.htm > > > > Now, with Debian 5.0 Lenny (distributional kernel 2.6.26), only the onboard > > cards are functional. The Intel is also recognised by the kernel, is > > assigned > > ports (eth2-5), however none of them works when connected to network. The > > NIC > > is aware of plugging or un-plugging the cable (displays message on console),
that part is a good sign, probably indicating interrupts are working. > > however no communication is ever performed, and the connected port just > > lazily > > blinks. > > > > After some rochades hard to reproduce (plugging, unplugging, configuring > > interfaces, resetting etc), it even worked for few seconds, and then died > > out > > again forever. > > > > I have also compiled fresh 2.6.30 kernel, no advance however. Interesting, > > that > > ifconfig always revails huge number of errors for the port. errors even before traffic? looking at the ifconfig output in the bug shows lots of rx_errors, indicating the counter went negative, I wonder if you're having some kind of power issue. can you do lspci -vvv after ifconfig shows errors? also do ethtool -S eth2 do you get the arp/ping requests at the remote end? tcpdump on your remote and see if you get the packets. you might want to (for debugging) try booting with pci=nomsi kernel option to disable MSI and see if that is related. does tcpdump -i eth2 show any packets coming in? there is a tool at e1000.sourceforge.net called ethregs that you can download/build and run, I would appreciate the output of that as well (probably gzipped) Jesse ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel
