Re: NIC kernel error

[Mike S <michael_six@users.sourceforge.net>]

Peter Spuhler wrote:

> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 17:37 -0600, Peter Spuhler wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > My network hangs every so often and the following message appears on 
> > > ttys0
> > >
> > > eth0: RX MAC fifo overflow smac[00810400]
> > >
> > > running kernel 2.6.11-powerpc-smp and the network chip in my G4  
> > > according to lspci is
> > > Apple UniNorth GMAC (Sun GEM) (rev 01)
> > >
> > > Has anyone experienced this message? If so is this a kernel bug or a 
> > > network configuration error?
> > >
> > > I recently switched from 10 Mbps to 100 Mbps line and this error 
> > > occurs more frequently.
> > > Restarting the network fixes the network connection.
> > >   
> >
> >
> > Hrm... that's annoying. A fix was made to the driver recently to fix a
> > problem with incorrect recovery on Rx MAC overflow, but I can't remember
> > if it made it to 2.6.11 or if it's only in 2.6.12, I'll try to figure
> > that out.
> >
> > Ben.
> >
> >  
> Ben,
> do you know when 2.6.12 will make it into unstable? I'm not even 
> seeing a 2.6.12 kernel-tree package yet?
> Or what older version of the kernel do you know of which did not have 
> this problem?
>
> -Peter
with all the release candidates for 2.6.12 would it even be possible for 
this to make it in?

--Mike S