Bug#531425: Re: Bug#531425: base: Loss of ethernet connectivity (bmac ethernet driver) after random amount of time

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:25:45AM +0200, Tor Arne Benjaminsen wrote:
> Wed, 17 Jun 2009 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> >If this happens again, please run "ifconfig", save the output to a file,
> >and send it to this bug.  This should show some useful statistics
> >(assuming the driver updates them properly, which I haven't checked).
> >
> 
> 
> Just had the error occur again, this time after just maybe 10
> minutes of uptime on the box. Here's the output from ifconfig:
> 
> 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:05:02:db:35:e4
>           inet addr:10.0.0.50  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::205:2ff:fedb:35e4/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:4877 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:2861 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:6738096 (6.4 MiB)  TX bytes:215799 (210.7 KiB)
>           Interrupt:42 Base address:0xc000
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:1296 (1.2 KiB)  TX bytes:1296 (1.2 KiB)

Hi,
I've browsed through the Linux kernel commits for that driver, but no
patches have been commited which could fix such an error as the one
seen. This might be an issue, which needs to be fixed upstream. Could
you please install one of the snapshots (from "trunk"):
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel 

If you can reproduce the error with this kernel, please file a bug
at http://bugzilla.kernel.org

Cheers,
        Moritz