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Bug#617635: Network connection drops under heavy load (tg3 driver)



On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 12:03 -0500, David Parker wrote:
> > Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > > David A. Parker wrote:
> > 
> > >> Adding 'idle=mwait' solved the problem (tested with 2.6.38-2-
> > amd64).[...]
> > > This means amd_e400_idle is buggy, I guess.
> > >
> > > I don't see any obvious fixes upstream, but since it's been a
> while,
> > > it would be useful to check a more current kernel.  
> > Please test a
> > > 3.1.y kernel from unstable
> > 
> > Did you get a chance to try this?  The only packages from outside
> > squeeze that should be needed aside from the kernel itself are
> > linux-base and initramfs-tools.
> > 
> 
> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> It's been a while since I had the chnace to work on this, so I will
> try it again soon.  I believe I attempted these steps before, but
> getting the packages from sid was more problematic than it should have
> been.  I will try again in a few days and be sure to update the bug
> report this time.  Sorry for the suspense.

Something like this should work:

        # echo >>/etc/apt/apt.conf 'APT::Default-Release "squeeze";'
        # echo >>/etc/apt/sources.list 'deb http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ sid main'
        # apt-get update
        ...
        # apt-get install -t unstable linux-image-3.1.0-1-amd64
        
You may want to adjust the mirror name in the APT source line - or if
you already have an unstable source then of course you shouldn't add a
duplicate.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson

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