Re: Forcedeth ethernet driver hangs

[Dean Hamstead <dean@bong.com.au>]

the forcedeth driver is reverse engineered, although nvidia
now recommends it (yeah no comment). you could try the nvidia
driver and see if thats better

also forcedeth development is very much full steam ahead
as its a now a very popular card.

i personally have one on my dfi-lanparty (nf4) board
and i havent had any problems.

Dean

Corey Hickey wrote:
> 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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