Just posted this to the bug tracker: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3043936&group_id=42302&atid=447449
---------------8<-snip-------------------------------- Problem: After a while (few minutes mostly) NIC is not receiving any data. Affected NIC: Device ID 10ef rev 06. Seen on various distribution (RHEL 5.5, openSUSE 11.3). Details: I have several mainboards with IbexPeak chipset and this LAN chip. Mainboards with LAN chip rev 05 work without problem with the distributions mentioned above, mainboards with a LAN chip rev 06 are causing problems: - Installation over PXE stops after a while and complains about not avaialble packages (in fact there is no connection the the Install server any more) - Transfers on a running system stop after a while I traced this with wireshark on a system that show the error. If I ping to anohter station I see that the system that shows the error is still sending out ARP packet, but doesn't respond tot the ARP responses. The other way round, if I want to ping the system from outside, the initiator is sending out ARP packets that are never answered. So it looks like that receiving from the LAN is dead when the error occurs. As mentioned above this failure is only seen on boards with LAN chip rev 06. So the question is: What is different between rev 05 and rev 06 chips and do we need to address this in the driver (would be bad since all distors ship with the old drivers) or is this a firmware issue? ---------------8<-snip-------------------------------- Sorry to bother you both on the bug tracker and the mailing list with this, but I guess its urgent since my company is shipping systems with the rev 06 chip every day. Regards Rainer -- Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rainer Koenig Project Manager Linux Clients Dept. TSP WPS R&D SW OSE Fujitsu Technology Solutions Bürgermeister-Ullrich-Str. 100 86199 Augsburg Germany Telephone: +49-821-804-3321 Telefax: +49-821-804-2131 Mail: mailto:[email protected] Internet ts.fujtsu.com Company Details ts.fujitsu.com/imprint.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
