Thomas A. Oehser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > I tested with everything turned off (no SMP, no swap, no > USB, no firewire, no iptables, no lmsensors, flat 1G memory, > etc. etc. etc.) except the bare minimum (LSI new Megaraid for the > SCSI and SATA raid arrays, both of which use the same driver, EXT3, > VGA console, keyboard, mouse). Also, with everything static and > no modules.
Ok, it really looks like a genuine bug. [...] > Changing _nothing_ other than replacing EEPRO100 with R8169 and > vice versa causes it to work perfectly or fail abominably... the > machine always had both nics physically connected, so it was just > the software change of one driver or the other as eth0. > > There was no dmesg output. Then the Rx part of the driver is more screwed than the Tx one. I'll welcome a complete dmesg after you have recovered through ifconfig down/up though. [...] > Note, it will be a day or few before I can retest with ethtool etc., > I have to do my taxes today. No problem. One more question: have you enabled NAPI ? If not, you should. -- Ueimor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
