Bug#681089: Some progress
The combination of Squeeze, and the current "driver" from Broadcom seems to be stable. Note: The hardware is a HP ML115.
$ sudo ifconfig eth0
[sudo] password for elbournb:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:5a:d3:d0:0c
inet addr:192.168.2.10 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::221:5aff:fed3:d00c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:175382 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:234297 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:23169470 (22.0 MiB) TX bytes:199392368 (190.1 MiB)
Interrupt:19
Although this is only after an hour of runtime, I ran this system for two days without a single error or dropout.
elbournb@red:~$ sudo ethtool -i eth0
driver: tg3
version: 3.122n
firmware-version: 5722-v3.07, ASFIPMI v6.02
bus-info: 0000:11:00.0
$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.32-5-amd64 (Debian 2.6.32-45) (dannf@debian.org) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) #1 SMP Sun May
6 04:00:17 UTC 2012
So on this machine at least the Broadcom software is not stable on the Kernel backported from Wheezy. Also the current
"firmware" for squeeze, or backported from wheezy is not stable.
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