Re: [E1000-devel] Kernel 2.6.27.10: e1000e hangs during boot at MTU change

2009-03-05 Thread Brandeburg, Jesse
Hi Carsten, any update? Carsten Aulbert wrote: > Hi Jesse, > > sorry for the late reply, too much other work to rank this question > high enough. > > I was able to work around the problem by adding netconsole module > loading to a dhclient hook. > > Brandeburg, Jesse schrieb: >>> >>> 0d:00.0 0

Re: [E1000-devel] Kernel 2.6.27.10: e1000e hangs during boot at MTU change

2009-02-05 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Hi Jesse, sorry for the late reply, too much other work to rank this question high enough. I was able to work around the problem by adding netconsole module loading to a dhclient hook. Brandeburg, Jesse schrieb: >> >> 0d:00.0 0200: 8086:108c (rev 03) >> 0e:00.0 0200: 8086:109a > > ah, our good

Re: [E1000-devel] Kernel 2.6.27.10: e1000e hangs during boot at MTU change

2009-01-15 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Hi again, Carsten Aulbert wrote: >> you're welcome to try the attached patch (against 2.6.29-rc1 but should >> apply) >> but it is more a shot in the dark than an actual fix for your issue. > > Well, let's see. I will try it remotely now, if it fails and IPMI stops > as well, I'll be lost. > It

Re: [E1000-devel] Kernel 2.6.27.10: e1000e hangs during boot at MTU change

2009-01-14 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Hi Jesse, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: > Carsten Aulbert wrote: >> And another hi from me >> >> I think I've found the problem. >> >> We are using netconsole for remote logging and this one is loaded via >> /etc/modules (obviously *before* DHCP is running. netconsole tries to >> force its way through

Re: [E1000-devel] Kernel 2.6.27.10: e1000e hangs during boot at MTU change

2009-01-14 Thread Carsten Aulbert
And another hi from me I think I've found the problem. We are using netconsole for remote logging and this one is loaded via /etc/modules (obviously *before* DHCP is running. netconsole tries to force its way through and in 2.6.25.9 that does not seem to be an issue, however with the 2.6.27.10 ke

Re: [E1000-devel] Kernel 2.6.27.10: e1000e hangs during boot at MTU change

2009-01-14 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Hi again, Carsten Aulbert wrote: > Next thing I do is I could > o set the MTU to 1500 > o power the system down > o reboot into the new kernel with e1000e > o see what happens > > Anything else I should/could try? OK, did that, i.e. switched MTU manually to 1500, shutdown -h now, power cord off,

Re: [E1000-devel] Kernel 2.6.27.10: e1000e hangs during boot at MTU change

2009-01-14 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Hi John, Ronciak, John wrote: > For the 2.6.27 kernel you should be only using the e1000e driver. This is > the driver needed going forward that will support the 82573 devices. Tried (as written before) and it failed in the same manner. > > Have you been using jumbo frames in your previous ins

Re: [E1000-devel] Kernel 2.6.27.10: e1000e hangs during boot at MTU change

2009-01-13 Thread Ronciak, John
0-devel] Kernel 2.6.27.10: e1000e hangs during >boot at MTU change > >Hi all, > >I hope e1000e questions are on topic here as well: > >We are currently in transition from 2.6.25.9 to 2.6.27.10 (vanilla) and >hit quite a few problems with our NICs. > >0d:00.0 Etherne

[E1000-devel] Kernel 2.6.27.10: e1000e hangs during boot at MTU change

2009-01-13 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Hi all, I hope e1000e questions are on topic here as well: We are currently in transition from 2.6.25.9 to 2.6.27.10 (vanilla) and hit quite a few problems with our NICs. 0d:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 03) 0e:00.0 Ethernet controll