Re: Forcedeth ethernet driver hangs
Charles de Miramon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm running kernel 2.6.14-2-amd64-k8 on a A8N-Sli with the
> latest nvidia kernel source package of
> http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia unstable/amd64/
> http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia unstable/all/
>
> Today the ethernet connection stopped working after running the computer for
> several hours with the message :
> nv_stop_tx: TransmitterStatus remained busy<7>eth0: tx_timeout: dead
> entries!
>
> I had to unplug the computer and to reboot it to reset the lan interface. My
> problem seems connected with
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4552
>
> It is the first time it is happening and I'm wondering if it is bad luck or
> if 2.6.14 + nvidia-kernel-source is buggy and I should downgrade. Am I the
> only one encountering forcedeth freeze.
I've had that happen to me twice in the past year.
It looks like there's a good amount of activity in the bugzilla.
Hopefully someone will figure it out. I didn't read the whole page, but
it looks like one or more developers is requesting various debug output.
If you are able to reproduce the bug with any kind of regularity, you
should read the entire bugzilla page and send the output you get when
following their instructions.
-Corey
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