Re: r8168b woes
ugh, Actually I have to keep this box pretty stable. This kernel
requires several updates to the base system and tools, I was mostly
making sure this problem was on someones radar. But I think it is.
Just don't want to get stuck when upgrading.
I have a live Debian script for a netboot. I'll try setting it up with
that. I can make some network tests at that point.
Thanks
JEffrey
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Jeffrey <jcanon+debian@flying-baker.com> wrote:
> yea sounds familiar I'll try it out
>
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:49:05AM -0700, Jeffrey wrote:
>>> I was running the "linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.3-amd64" and came across
>>> the r8169 driver to r8168b bug. However downloading the r8168 driver,
>>> compiling it and installing it didn't work.
>>>
>>> The symptoms were the classic, under high network load "mediatomb
>>> videos to our play station 3 box" the network would stall until I
>>> disabled/reenabled networking. I tried both drivers the original r8169
>>> from the image and compiling the r8168 from source. It seemed like the
>>> behavior was exactly the same. I did verify that the driver r8168 was
>>> being loaded via the lsmod | grep 'r816' command.
>>>
>>> After returning to the stock kernel 2.6.32. The network is very stable
>>> and very good with the stock r8169 driver.
>>>
>>> The network is integrated on the ASUS M5A97 board.
>>
>> Do you get a 'NETDEV WATCHDOG' warning in the kernel log? If so this
>> may be a known bug which is fixed in 3.2.25. Try the package from
>> unstable (linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 version 3.2.30-1).
>>
>> Ben.
>>
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