Hi,
I'm having similar problems with the sky2 driver. We've been avoiding
the builtin drivers from the packaged kernels in stable for a while,
but we're now using the backports (2.6.17 from backports.org), and we
(unvoluntarly) have started using the sky2 module. Traffic on the NIC
is usually low, so everything worked pretty well, until I had to rsync
data over the wire, at which point everything went black. The NIC was
still there, but traffic wasn't going through (can't ping the
machine's own IP). I couldn't find error messages in the dmesg or the
kernel log.
I don't have the courage to upgrade to the 2.6.18 kernel since this is
a production machine and I need to resolve this issue very quickly.
I apologize for not having a test machine for doing this.. We're
putting a new infrastructure live tomorrow and can't afford
uncertainty at this point...
We've reverted to using the manufacturer's driver at this point:
http://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDisplay.do?dId=153&pId=36
0000:04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.: Unknown device 4361 (rev 18)
Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 3452
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 0x10 (64 bytes)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 177
Region 0: Memory at ff720000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Region 2: I/O ports at a800 [size=256]
Expansion ROM at ff700000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [5c] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/1 Enable-
Address: 00000000fee00000 Data: 4042
Capabilities: [e0] #10 [0011]
00: ab 11 61 43 07 01 10 00 18 00 00 02 10 00 00 00
10: 04 00 72 ff 00 00 00 00 01 a8 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 86 80 52 34
30: 00 00 70 ff 48 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 01 00 00
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