On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 12:09 +0200, Tor Arne Benjaminsen wrote: > Sun, 14 Jun 2009 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > > > On Montag, 1. Juni 2009, Tor Arne Benjaminsen wrote: > >> Running Debian on a PowerBook G3 'WallStreet'. Using the bmac ethernet > >> driver. Experiencing loss of ethernet connectivity (100% packet loss) after > >> a random amount of time. Have tried running bmac as both in-kernel and as a > >> module. Running as a module seems to lengthen the delay before loss of > >> connectivity occurs. > >> > >> I am clueless as to how to diagnose this problem and would appreciate any > >> help. > > > > Unfortunately this driver doesn't support the usual diagnostic > > interfaces, so there's not much I can suggest. Which kernel version are > > you seeing this on, and was there an earlier kernel version that did not > > have this problem? > > > > > I'm seeing this on 2.6.29. The only other kernel version tried on the > system was the one on the Debian Installer CD (2.6.26 I believe). > While I didn't experience the problem on 2.6.26, the system was > never running that kernel for prolonged periods of time, so I can't > really say if the problem exists there or not. Would it be helpful if > I compiled up an earlier version kernel and which one would you > suggest? You could try installing and running kernel version 2.6.26 from "lenny" for a while. > The only kind of diagnostic input I can provide is that I was > connected to the box over SSH (using PuTTY from a Windows box) once > the network went down, and the error PuTTY gave me was "Incorrect MAC > received on packet" This implies some sort of data corruption, though that should usually be detected and corrected by TCP. 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). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity.
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