sky2 stops working 2.6.17 or ethernet driver crashes 2.6.18
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Two debian bugs Bug#390248, Bug#391382 are about failing sky2 under
load. Please see, bugs.debian.org or i can forward every mail
separately here.
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel/22665
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel/22874
Bug#391382 is as this:
On 2006-10-06, Matthias Kreis <Matthias.Kreis@remasec.ch> wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7
> Version: 2.6.17-9
> Severity: normal
>
> The Sky2 driver stops working while under load after some time.
> I get the following messages:
>
> sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x7ffc0001 length 932
> sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x7ffc0001 length 932
> sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x7ffc0001 length 932
>
> A ping to an other server results in Destination Host not Reachable from my local machine.
>
> You can solve this situation by bringing down the interface, unloading the driver, loading the driver
> again and bringing up the interface. Just cycling the interface down and up is not enough.
>
> You get the following messages by doing this. First was cycling down and up. Second was down, reload
> driver and bringing network up again.
>
> --- First Step ---
>
> nfs: server ponder not responding, still trying
> nfs: server ponder not responding, still trying
> nfs: server ponder not responding, still trying
> nfs: server ponder not responding, still trying
> sky2 eth0: disabling interface
> bridge-eth0: disabling the bridge
> bridge-eth0: down
> sky2 eth0: enabling interface
> bridge-eth0: enabling the bridge
> bridge-eth0: up
> sky2 eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex, flow control both
> sky2 unknown status opcode 0xe1
> sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x8329ddaf length 54500
> eth0: no IPv6 routers present
>
> --- Second Step ---
>
> sky2 eth0: disabling interface
> bridge-eth0: disabling the bridge
> bridge-eth0: down
> ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:05:00.0 disabled
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> GSI 36 (level, low) -> IRQ 82
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:00.0 to 64
> sky2 v1.6.1 addr 0xdc000000 irq 82 Yukon-EC (0xb6) rev 2
> sky2 eth0: addr 00:13:d4:9d:66:1d
> sky2 eth0: enabling interface
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
> bridge-eth0: enabling the bridge
> bridge-eth0: up
> sky2 eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex, flow control both
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
> eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> nfs: server ponder OK
> nfs: server ponder OK
> nfs: server ponder OK
> nfs: server ponder OK
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (1001, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-k7
> Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>
> Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7 depends on:
> ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.80 tools for generating an initramfs
> ii module-init-tools 3.2.2-3 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
>
> Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7 recommends:
> ii libc6-i686 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i
>
> -- debconf information:
> linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.17-2-k7: true
> shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
> linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.17-2-k7: true
> linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.17-2-k7: true
> linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
> linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.17-2-k7: true
> linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.17-2-k7: true
> linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.17-2-k7:
> linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.17-2-k7:
> linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.17-2-k7: true
> linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.17-2-k7: true
> linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.17-2-k7:
> linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.17-2-k7: false
> linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.17-2-k7: true
> linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.17-2-k7: true
> linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7/preinst/abort-install-2.6.17-2-k7:
> linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.17-2-k7:
> linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7/preinst/initrd-2.6.17-2-k7:
> linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.17-2-k7: false
> linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
> linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.17-2-k7:
> linux-image-2.6.17-2-k7/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.17-2-k7: true
>
>
>
> Best Regards Matthias Kreis
>
>
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