Hello! I am more or less "trying" to use the e1000e driver on a Thinkpad X60. Up to kernel 2.6.32 it worked quite fine. The next kernel I tried was 2.6.34.1 and now 2.6.35 and there I find a very nasty issue which is high packet latencies, varying. If I do e.g. a ping to machine on the local net ping times are sometimes OK but most of the time > 300ms and going up to 1000ms - which is inacceptable.
The very nasty and for me kind of neck breaking side effect is that I cannot boot my embedded boards over tftp from this e1000e machine anymore which renders the notebook useless for my work :( The embedded board's tftp client timeouts on almost every packet and gives up sooner or later. Instead of the in-kernel e1000e driver I also tried the latest release from your sf.net page e1000e-1.2.10.tar.gz. I also already tried different module parameters like disable the power management, disabling MSI, etc. but no change. The only thing I know is that the driver from 2.6.32 worked. If I can help to diagnose this let me know. If you have a possible solution, even better ;) Thanks! PS: I am not subscribed to the e1000 list so in case you reply please take my address into CC directly - thanks! Cheers nils -- kernel concepts GbR Tel: +49-271-771091-12 Sieghuetter Hauptweg 48 Fax: +49-271-771091-19 D-57072 Siegen Mob: +49-176-21024535 http://www.kernelconcepts.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
